The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Special Session Amends Budget Act of 2024. 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 - This new methodology was to be implemented no sooner than 2015 ‑16. Although efforts began to develop a revised methodology, none has been implemented to date. This is largely due to other competing policy priorities —for example ACA implementation and COVID ‑19 response efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Census American Community Survey, from 2015 to 2024, the number of individuals in the state aged 65 and over has incr eased by 29  percent, while the overall population has increased by a little over 2  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to decline slowly at an average rate of 1.7  percent each year. As shown in Figure  3, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 0.9  percent in both 2025-26 and 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - We analyze the Governor ’s proposed food assistance budget and describe potential impacts of H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Finally, we provide an update on estimates for the Legislature ’s previous action to expand CFAP to undocumented immigrants in 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - As part of the 2018-19 Budget Act , the Legislature set a goal to increase CalWORKs grants to 50  percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family that is one person larger than the number of people in the family for which the grant amount is calculated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The 2023-24 Budget Act authorized the CalFresh Minimum Nutrition Benefit Pilot and included about $1  million General Fund (one time) for automation costs. The 2024-25 Budget Act included $15  million General Fund on a one-time basis for the implementation of the pilot program, which was originally expected to begin in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - California High Fidelity Wraparound In addition to implementing prevention services as allowed by the federal Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), California also is implementing separate, required components of FFPSA related to congregate care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget Act does not include funding from the Child Poverty and Family Supplemental Subaccount for a new ongoing maximum grant increase, meaning maximum grant amounts will not change in 2025-26 (as compared to 2024-25).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs 24 Failed a Due to the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, states could receive the caseload reduction credit from either 2007 or 2008 for WPR calculation from 2008 to 2011.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877