The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure 3 2025 ‑26 Funding for Other CDSS ‑Administered State and Federal Food Assistance Programs (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - The spending plan anticipates the CalFresh caseload to increase by more than 50  percent (from 1.9  million in 2019 ‑20 on average to about 3  million in 2020 ‑21 on average) in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency and subsequent recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/2

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Although the budget does not assume an extension of the MCO tax, it does propose the continued use of General Fund for the 7  p ercent restoration in 2019 ‑20. The cost of the 7  p ercent restoration is estimated to be $342. 3  m illion in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As a result, in 2019 ‑20, the 2017 MOE was eliminated and replaced with the current IHSS MOE structure —referred to as the 2019 IHSS MOE. As seen in Figure  7 , the 2019 IHSS MOE reduced the base county costs in 2019 ‑20 to roughly $1.6  billion, decreasing IHSS county costs by roughly $300  million relative to 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - CalSAWS was introduced in 2019 and, as of October 2023, all 58 counties use the system. The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - The actual delivery of many services takes place at the local level and is typically carried out by 58 separate county welfare departments. A major exception is the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP), which is administered mainly by the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - Funding for LCSAs Background LCSA Administrative Funding Methodology Created in 2019-20. The 2019-20 budget included a new methodology to determine the appropriate annual funding amount for each LCSA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - However, across counties, county ‑level CalWORKs participation rates (among families with children) varied from under 3  percent in certain counties (such as San Mateo, Placer, and Marin Counties) to over 20  percent in other counties (such as Del Norte and Imperial  Counties).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Proposal to Strengthen Information Security

Feb 28, 2017 - In 2016, CDT contracted with a vendor to conduct a one-time analysis of the security maturity of 20  departments. Maturity is an indicator of how prepared departments are to prevent or respond to a security attack in a way that mitigates any negative consequences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3594

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of Social Services

Feb 24, 2020 - IHSS County MOE The Governor ’s budget estimates that IHSS county MOE costs will increase by $ 83  m illion, from $1. 58  m illion in 2019 ‑ 20 t o $1. 67  m illion in 2020 ‑21. Counties generally pay for their share of IHSS costs with revenues from 1991 r ealignment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4175