The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - CalFresh Administration Is Funded by the State, Counties, and Federal Government. CalFresh is overseen at the state level by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and administered locally by county human services departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2024-25 Budget: IS and IT Project Proposal Tables

Feb 9, 2024 - IT = information technology; CDT = California Department of Technology; TF = total funds; GF = General Fund; OF = other funds; EDD  =  Employment  Development Department; CalSTRS = State Teachers ’ Retirement System; PSP = Pension Solution Project; N/A = not applicable; CalHHS  =  California Health and Human Services Agency; DSS = Department of Social Services; CWS ‑CARES = Child Welfare Services
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4836

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Figure  3 shows the 3.6  percent increase will raise grants for all AU sizes in high-cost counties to between 45  percent and 49  percent of the FPL for a family one person larger than the AU size, and to slightly lower levels for families in lower-cost counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/2

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) used data from 50 counties to inform a new methodology for determining annual county CalFresh administration funding. The new methodology includes updated assumptions and variables such as application volume, case types, and current eligibili ty worker costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/3

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Specifically, AB  1051 requires the placing county to retain responsibility for providing specialty mental health services to the youth —rather than transferring that responsibility to the county where the youth is placed —for out-of-county placements, with limited exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/4

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - An additional $170.1  million ($104.4  million General Fund) is appropriated in 2023-24 for updates to CalSAWS (and other smaller information technology systems) to automate recent state budget and policy actions, and to maintain and operate the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Information Network (CalWIN) system until all remaining CalWIN counties migrate to CalSAWS by the federal deadline of December 31, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/5

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - The remainder of the allocation is calculated based on the county ’s share of California households, as a proportion of either all rural counties or all urban counties, without access to broadband with at least 100  Mbps download speed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - For example, for the Department of Social Services ’ Child Welfare Services – California Automated Response and Engagement System project, the project D &I approach changed to a combination of agile and traditional approaches because county eligibility workers needed to limit the amount of user testing and training required.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2023-24 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 2, 2023 - Beginning in 2012-13, however, the historical county share-of-cost model was replaced with an IHSS county maintenance-of-effort (MOE), meaning county costs would reflect a set amount of nonfederal IHSS costs as opposed to a certain percent of nonfederal IHSS costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4729

The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Following a major realignment of state and local responsibilities in 1991, some funds generated by the state sales tax and vehicle license fee accrue to a special fund with a series of subaccounts which pay for a variety of health and human services programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699