California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 18932.1

(a) The state shall retain a portion of any collected overissuance claims on benefits issued under this chapter.  The portion of the recovered overissuance claims retained by the state shall be the same percentage as the state and the United States Department of Agriculture would have retained, combined, if the overissuance claims had been collected under the CalFresh program.  Any remaining portion of the recovered overissuance claims shall be distributed by the department to the counties based on the amount of the overissuance claims recovered by the counties.

(b) This section shall become operative upon Section 18930, as added by Section 87 of Chapter 85 of the Statutes of 2021, becoming operative.