Keeping Your Benefits

To keep your CalFresh benefits, you will need to complete a semi-annual report, re-evaluation, and any mandatory mid-year reports.

Semi-Annual Reporting

You are required to submit a semi-annual report, which includes a SAR 7 Form with required verifications every 6 months to report changes in circumstances that could impact eligibility, such as changes in income, household composition, and/or expenses.

You can find out if your SAR 7 is due and submit it online here.

Additional options for ways you can submit your SAR 7 and/or any required verifications include:

Download Printable Blank SAR 7 Forms here:
(English, Spanish, Cambodian, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Farsi, Additional Languages)

Blank SAR 7 Forms are also available at Alameda County Social Services Agency offices.

You can find instructions on how to fill out the SAR 7 form here:
(English, Spanish, Cambodian, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Farsi, Additional Languages)

You can find a list of examples of the types of verifications that should be attached to the SAR 7 here:
(English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Farsi, Additional Languages)

Annual Re-evaluation

You are required to complete a recertification every year, which includes completing an interview with an eligibility worker and submitting the redetermination form and required verifications.

You can find out if your redetermination is due. request to reschedule your renewal interview appointment, and submit your re-evaluation online here.

Additional options for ways you can submit your re-evaluation and/or any required verifications include:


Download a Printable Blank CF 37 here:
(English, Spanish, Cambodian, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Farsi, Additional Languages)

If you have a CalWORKs and CalFresh renewal due, use the Form SAWS 2 Plus to complete your renewal for both programs.

Blank CF 37 and SAWS 2 Plus Forms are also available at Alameda County Social Services Agency offices.

Mid-Period Reporting Requirements

For CalFresh there are certain changes that need to be reported at any time during the year.

It is mandatory to report the following changes within 10 days:

  • Income exceeds Income Reporting Threshold (IRT). Your IRT is detailed on the Form SAR 2A, which is mailed to you at initial approval and re-evaluation, or can be provided by an eligibility worker.
  • Substantial lottery or gambling winnings totaling $4,500 or more from a single game, purchase of a ticket, hand or similar bet before taxes or other withholding.

Voluntary reports, such as a decrease in your monthly income or increase in rent expense, can be reported at any time.

To submit a mid-period report, you can submit Form SAR 3 online here, mail or bring the report to an Alameda County Social Services Agency office, or call the Customer Service Call Center to report the change at 510-263-2420 or 1-888-999-4772.