1.  Identification

• State ID, Driver’s License, Passport, or Student ID
  

2. Income Information

• If working: Pay stubs or proof of income from the past 30 days (must include your name).
  • Two most recent paystubs are often required
  • If they get paid through direct deposit, please take a screenshot of your deposit amount and sign the sworn statement
• If not working: You may not need this section.
  

3. Housing Information

• Off-campus: A lease agreement with your name, landlord’s name, address, and total rent.
  • If you share rent, the lease can show the total amount, not just your portion.
    
    
• On-campus: Housing & dining contract (downloadable from HDH under Signature of Tenancy Verification). https://eforms.ucsd.edu/view.php?id=612535
  • Form sent back from HDH is what will be sent in for your application

4. Financial Aid Information

• Financial Aid Award Letter (from TritonLink Financial Aid Tool). Under Financial Aid -> Select Current Academic Year -> important information ->  View and/or Print your Financial Aid Offer Confirmation -> printer-friendly version -> click print NOT download (download will encrypt your file) -> after print, click save as PDF
  • If you received an automated email from DO-NOT-REPLY-UCSD FINAID entitled “Apply for CalFresh” you may upload a PDF version of that document with your financial aid package.
• Cal Grant Students: CSAC Award Letter (emailed by CSAC).
  • If a student cannot find CSAC Award Letter, a sworn statement is highly recommended
• Graduate Students: If their department is not listed on TritonLink, please contact them directly.
  
  
• School of Medicine Students: Request from their program’s financial aid office.
  

5. School Verification

• Download class schedule from TritonLink (must show their name and the university’s name). (tritonlink>advising and grades>academic history> download this page as a pdf> save to computer)

6. Local Program that Increases Employability (LPIE)

• Submit with your school verification 
  • Graduate students: Acceptance Letter with name of program
  • Undergraduate students: Degree Audit or dashboard of your mytritonlink that includes your name and major
  • Sworn statement highly recommended

 7.  Sworn Statement 

• We highly recommend you fill out the Sworn Statement document and submit it with your CalFresh application

 Follow up with the County 

If you have yet to receive a timely update regarding your CalFresh case, the CalFresh Outreach Team at UC San Diego can contact the County of San Diego on your behalf once you have signed a Release of Information form. Please attach the completed form to your email and send it to calfresh@ucsd.edu along with your specific inquiry and an outreach assistant will be able to assist you.

Release of Information

• Filling out the Release of Information (ROI) will allow our CalFresh Team to advocate to the County of San Diego on your behalf