The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - At least 91 processing departments (and, for some processes, nearly all state departments) will need to onboard to CSPS, but there is currently no information about which processing departments will be included in each of the waves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

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

May 24, 2024 - Passing only what is necessary this year would allow more time for the remaining stakeholder questions and policy issues to be worked out and give the Legislature the chance to assess whether the rates structure is in line with its vision for permanent CC R rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of Social Services

Feb 24, 2020 - Since 2009 ‑10, the average hourly wage for IHSS providers increased by 30  p ercent, from $9. 90 t o an estimated $12. 91 i n 2019 ‑20. (This average IHSS wage reflects the base hourly wages for IHSS providers averaged across all counties.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4175

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - For example, caseload in the IHSS program has more than tripled in the past 27 years, from about 160, 000 i n 1990 ‑ 91 t o an estimated 545, 000 i n 2018 ‑19. (In contrast, the population of California has grown by roughly one ‑third over that same time period.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - By eliminating the minor recipient p rovider eligibility requirements, IHSS-eligible minor recipients are now treated like all other IHSS recipients when it comes to the selection of a provider. As of December 2024, roughly 91  percent of minor recipients had a paid provider —which is slightly higher, but close to, the utilization rate for the overall IHSS population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The Potential Effects of Ending the SSI Cash-Out

Jan 8, 2018 - Combined with the SSI/SSP grant payment, the household ’s total monthly resources would be about $1,170, which is 81  p ercent of the FPL. If the SSI  cash ‑out were eliminated and the SSI/SSP recipient were included in the CalFresh household size and income calculation, the household would receive $ 334 i n monthly food benefits —increasing the monthly food benefit to this
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3729

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Figure  1 shows that the average share of authorized cases that are paid every month slightly decreased from 91  percent to 88  percent from January 2019 through December 2023. This translates to roughly 22,000 fewer paid cases every month relative to pre-COVID-19 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 3, 2021 - Moreover, since spring, a larger share of applications (about 60  p ercent) has been denied compared to recent years (about 48  p ercent). Finally, Figure  3 shows that the exit rate has accelerated in October and November to about 10  p ercent of the caseload, above the recent average of about 6  p ercent to 8  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Social Services Budget

Feb 22, 2019 - The SSI/SSP caseload grew at a rate of less than   1  p ercent each year between  2011 ‑12 and 2014 ‑15. More recently, however, SSI/SSP caseload has slightly   decreased —by 1. 2  p ercent in 2016 ‑17, 1. 5  p ercent in 2017 ‑18, and an estimated 1. 5  p ercent in 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3947

The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

Dec 8, 2020 - Personal income for Californians actually increased by about 6  p ercent between the first and second quarters of 2020 e ven as unemployment increased more than 10  p ercentage points, in part reflecting federal relief measures that put cash in people ’s pockets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4306