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

Mar 3, 2026 - SSP Grants Were Increased in 2016-17, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24.  Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Center for Excellence $750,000 ongoing beginning in 2022 ‑23. Emergency Response Augmentation $50 million one ‑time in 2021 ‑22 and again in 2022 ‑23, expendable for four years (through June 30, 2026 for the later allocation).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Feb 13, 2025 - SSP Grants Were Increased in 2016-17, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24. Since the Great Recession, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - Overestimates led to a large amount of unspent TANF —$767  million —estimated to be available to reduce state spending in CalWORKs in 2022-23. Similarly, $664  million in unspent TANF funds was estimated to be available in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - However, when CSD ultimately disbursed the funds in the fall of 2022, only $647  million was needed to pay off identified remaining eligible arrears. (The difference between the estimated remaining arrearages as of spring 2022 and the actual amount needed to address identified arrearages as of fall 2022 likely stems from a variety of factors; see our prior post for more analysis on this issue.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/7

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 8, 2024 - Figure 3 SSI/SSP Monthly Maximum Grant Levels a 2022 ‑23 (Actual)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Community Services and Development

Feb 9, 2023 - CSD submitted the required report to the Legislature in December 2022 detailing program outcomes of the 2021-22 funds. CSD received utility companies ’ applications for 2022-23 CAPP dollars in the fall of 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4674

The 2023-24 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 2, 2023 - More recent data, for August 2022 through January 2023, indicate there is a very recent, slight increase in the percentage of authorized cases being paid in 2022-23 (averaging closer to 89  percent, or about 7,000 less paid cases per month).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4729

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - SPM rates increased in 2022 (relative to 2021) as many of the expansions ended. Poverty Disproportionately Affects Different Groups of Californians. Certain demographic groups experience poverty at disproportionate rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2023-24 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 24, 2023 - …However, SSP Grants Were Increased in 2016-17, 2021-22, and 2022-23.   Since the past SSP grant reductions, grants for individuals and couples have been increased three times —in  2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), and in 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4707