The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan provides $13.3  million one-time total funds ($5.1  million General Fund) to continue planning the new system, called LOIS. The spending plan also includes supplemental report language directing the department to submit quarterly progress updates to the Legislature on activities and expenditures related to LOIS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - In 2022 ‑23, about 5.1  million Californians received a total of $14.5  billion in CalFresh benefits, all of it federally funded, for an average monthly benefit of about $185 per recipient. (This average monthly benefit does not include the emergency allotments provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which averaged about $99 per person.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The spending plan includes $5.1  million General Fund ongoing to support temporary manager contracts for adult and senior care facilities. DSS assigns temporary managers to residential facilities when it is necessary to temporarily suspend (or permanently revoke) a license for the welfare and safety of the residents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - The spending plan includes $5.1  million General Fund to pay a penalty for not implementing the DDS EVV system for Phase I on time and $626,000 General Fund ($3  million total funds) one time to plan for Phase II.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/1

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

Feb 28, 2017 - As shown in Figure  1, the Governor ’s budget proposes $5.1  billion in total funding for the CalWORKs program in 2017 ‑18, a net decrease of $127  million (2  percent) relative to estimated current-year funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/1

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - This report presents our office’s initial assessment of the Governor’s Budget. The budget’s position continues to be positive. With $20.6 billion in discretionary resources available, the Governor’s budget proposal reflects a budget situation that is even better than the one our office estimated in the November Fiscal Outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

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