The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2027 are based on the LAO Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI ‑U) projection. The 2027 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - The federal COLA is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). In years that the CPI-W is negative (as was the case in 2010, 2011, and 2016), the federal government does not decrease SSI grants, but instead holds them flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

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

Feb 8, 2024 - The federal COLA is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). In years that the CPI-W is negative (as was the case in 2010, 2011, and 2016), the federal government does not decrease SSI grants, but instead holds them flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2023-24 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 24, 2023 - Whole grant COLAs worked by applying the California Necessity Index (CNI) to the total SSI/SSP grant. If the federal SSI COLA was not enough to increase total SSI/SSP grants to CNI-adjusted levels, then the SSP portion of the grant was increased by the remaining amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4707

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - Local Administrators May Earn Incentives, or Potentially Face Penalties, Based on Self ‑Support Index Performance. Local administrators that achieve a self ‑support index above their expected range of performance receive a bonus of 2.5  percent of their usual funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

The 2022-23 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 2, 2022 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24 are based on Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers projections. The 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2022 and fall 2023, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4514

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

Feb 28, 2017 - This COLA increases the SSI portion of grant by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). In years that the  CPI-W  is zero or negative (as was the case in 2010, 2011, and 2016), the federal government does not increase SSI grants, but instead holds them flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/3

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2024 are based on the LAO Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers projection. The 2024 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Stakeholders also continue to raise that the proposed administrative portion of the rates across tiers is too low for short-term residential therapeutic programs and foster family agencies, and that all rate components should receive an annual California Necessity Index cost-o f-living adjustment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Information Security Proposals

Feb 25, 2020 - Some program responsibilities for CDT ’s OIS include making sure independent security assessments (that we explain later in this post) are conducted for at least 35 state government entities each year; conducting audits of entities ’ compliance with IS policies, standards, and procedures as needed; and ranking of entities on an IS risk index based on a number of criteria, such as the sensitivity of the data they maintain.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4176