The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Additionally, counties may establish IHSS hourly wages above the state minimum wage through local wage ordinances or, more commonly, collectively bargained agreements. The state, federal government, an d counties share in the cost of   IHSS wages .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - The federal government gave states the option to provide state-funded food assistance to populations affected by the 1996 policy change (such as legal permanent residents who arrived less than five years ago).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The Legislature could use the funding it frees up from funding fewer proposals to address district cost pressures (such as rising pension costs), or it could set this funding aside in the Proposition  98 Reserve for future allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Pension Contribution Growth. The California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) board establishes the state ’s contribution rates —as a percentage of pay —to fund employee pension benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

Overview of Major Federal and State Broadband Programs and Projects [Publication Details]

Feb 28, 2024 - Overview of Major Federal and State Broadband Programs and Projects [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4864

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 8, 2024 - …While State Has Option to Provide Annual COLA to SSP Grants.  The state has full discretion over whether and how to provide increases to the SSP portion of the grant. Until 2011, the state had a statutory annual COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - FFPSA Part I extension of expenditure authority — — Governor ’s budget proposes to extend the expenditure deadline for local child welfare agencies to spend their grant dollars for the state Family First Prevention Services Block Grant for four years, to June 30, 2028.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program [Publication Details]

Feb 8, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4832

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor allocates this amount among three uses: ( 1)  c ontinuing to implement the state ’s plan to prefund retiree health benefits, ( 2)  r epaying a 2017 ‑ 18 l oan from the state ’s cash resources that supported a supplemental pension payment in that year, and ( 3)  a supplemental pension payment to the state ’s teacher retirement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - We recommend the Legislature begin to consider how the state might address the budget ’s ongoing problem. For example, using some of the windfall to make supplemental pension payments would reduce the multiyear structural deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309