The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - (Budget-related legislation includes CalWORKs grant increases as a legislative priority in 2024-25 subject to a potential “trigger ” if certain revenue conditions are met.) Figure  3 shows how the grant levels included in the spending plan compare to the Legislature ’s intended target for these grants (50  percent of the federal poverty level for a family one person larger than the CalWORKs assistance unit size).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/2

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services [Publication Details]

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - As part of the 2021-22 Budget Act , the state established a five-year plan to reform service provider rates and rate setting, including implementing a quality incentive program. The spending plan includes an augmentation of $159.1  million General Fund to accelerate this reform, with budget-related legislation further requiring rate reform to be implemented fully a year earlier than initially budgeted —by July  2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - These rates are now in effect through December 31, 2024, with ongoing rates expected to be established by January 1, 2025. Increases County Responsibilities Around Assisting Older Foster Youth to Access Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - This year-to-year increase in General Fund reflects a much faster rate of cost growth relative to prior budget estimates. The main reason for the year-to-year General Fund cost increase is the anticipated ramp down of temporary increases to federal Medicaid funds (largely associated with the public health emergency) that were used to offset General Fund costs in the IHSS program in 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/5

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Under prior law, CFAP provides state-funded nutrition benefits to low-income legal permanent residents who have resided in the U.S. for less than five years. (These individuals would otherwise be eligible for CalFresh benefits, but were rendered ineligible by a federal welfare reform bill passed in 1996.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/3

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The spending plan includes language that will prioritize passing through the full amount of child support payments to current CalWORKs families as a part of the 2024-25 budget subject to certain conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/6

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - These funds are provided in addition to $25  million General Fund for LIWP in 2022-23 (and another $25  million in 2023-24) that was allocated by the 2021-22 Climate Resilience package, bringing total funding for LIWP in 2022-23 to $40  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/7

The 2022-23 Budget: California Spending Plan Series [Publication Details]

Sep 29, 2022 - Each year, our office publishes California Spending Plan, a series of publications that summarize the annual state budget. The Overview of the California Spending Plan is presented here along with short online posts that focus on major areas and features of the 2022-23 budget package. As more of these posts become available, we will add them below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4629