The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - In addition to restructuring foster care maintenance payments, the 2024-25 statutory changes also added two new foster care programs and corresponding rate components: (1)  Strengths Building and Child and Family Determination Program, and (2)  Immediate Needs Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Social Services Immigration and Equity Programs

Mar 15, 2024 - The primary drivers of this decrease include the expiration of one-time funding for the Rapid Response and Stop the Hate programs. Additionally, to address the projected budget shortfall, the Governor ’s budget includes proposed reductions to California State University (CSU) Immigration Legal Services ($5.2  million in 2023-24) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) immigration services ($10  million in 2023-24).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - As part of a special legislative session held in January 2025, the Legislature added Control Section 5.26 to the 2024-25 Budget Act, providing an additional one-time allocation of $10  million to support immigration related services, including removal defense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/8

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - Additionally, in taking this task on, the administration will be adding to the many competing priorities that are underway. This means that temporary funding may need to be in place until ongoing methodologies can be  established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Added to the MOE were any county costs associated with local IHSS wage increases. The state General Fund assumed the remaining nonfederal IHSS costs. Over the five years in which the 2012 IHSS MOE was in effect (2012 ‑13 to 2016 ‑17), growth in the county IHSS MOE was  less than  the growth in total IHSS costs, resulting in counties paying for a smaller share of the nonfederal
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Namely, for any new services added to the plan that are rated as supported or promising, DSS would need to ensure that at least 50  percent of Title IV ‑E dollars are claimed for well ‑supported services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - The CalHEERS release successfully deployed on February  15,   2021 i ncluded five new sets of functionalities and eight defect fixes identified and prioritized on the dashboard. County eligibility workers are in the process of confirming with the administration whether these issues are in fact resolved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

FI$Cal IT Project Update—Special Project Report 8

Jan 8, 2020 - These 15,000 hours may therefore be viewed as additional hours being added to the overall number of hours connected with the project (before and after deemed completion). The project expects to implement Milestone  5, Priority   3 i tems by June 2021 —after the project end date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4132

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

Feb 3, 2021 - As Figure  2 shows, this period of caseload growth was primarily driven not by an increase in cases added, but by a decrease in cases exiting following the temporary suspension of redeterminations. (Generally, when cases added are greater than cases exited, net caseload grows, and vice versa.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/