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

Mar 3, 2026 - Figure  4 shows how 2024-25 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels compare to 2025-26 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels and the administration ’s estimates of the 2026-27 federal SSI grant increase. The projected increases to maximum SSI/SSP grant levels in 2026-27 are entirely due to the estimated federal SSI COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - Figure  2 shows that the enacted budget ’s reductions vary by program. In some cases, such as the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program, budget reductions effectively zero out funding for a previously authorized initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Figure  3 shows how 2023-24 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels compare to 2024-25 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels and the administration ’s estimates of the 2025-26 federal SSI grant increase. The projected increases to maximum SSI/SSP grant levels in 2025-26 are entirely due to the estimated federal SSI COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure  2 shows CalFresh/ CFAP caseload increased over the last five years. CalFresh/CFAP caseload (as of November 2024) increased 60  percent since the beginning of 2019-20, although annual rates of growth have varied from year to year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - This figure shows no abrupt increase in early 2021. Furthermore, it  shows: Growth in 2019. A period of decline from late 2019 through early 2020. Stagnation through much of 2020, then a decline at the end of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The most recent expenditure data show that between October 2022 and September 2023, roughly $350,000 was expended on program services compared to the roughly $13  million allocated for services and $1.5  million allocated for administration in the 2022-23 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/4

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure  4 shows how CalWORKs caseload has changed since 2019-20. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, CalWORKs caseload began what was a historically anomalous decrease given high unemployment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Budget Overview and Assessment: Caseload, Cost Per Hour, and Hours Per Case Update Caseloads Are Growing at an Increasing Rate … Figure  1 shows the growth rate and key policy changes in IHSS since 2014-15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009