The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Over the next eight years, growth rates fluctuated between 3  percent and 8  percent, until reaching a peak growth rate of 10.2  percent and 10.4  percent in 2001 ‑02 and 2002 ‑03, respectively. Caseload growth then hovered between 4.5  percent and 8  percent for the next six years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Other counties chose broader groups, such as children ages zero to five (who often have the highest rates of entry into foster care by age) or older youth (who may have more intensive behavioral health support needs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Mar 5, 2024 - The administration indicated that based on initial projections, the all families reduction credit may reach up to 50  percentage points. This would lower the state ’s all families WPR requirement to zero or to near zero.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The state constitution has a balanced budget requirement, which means the balance of the SFEU must be set above zero for the upcoming fiscal year. Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - BSA Reaches Maximum Threshold in 2021 ‑22. Under Proposition  2, the state must make deposits into the BSA until its balance reaches a threshold of 10  p ercent of General Fund taxes. Under the administration ’s estimates, the state reaches this threshold in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  1, during the Great Recession, the state incrementally decreased SSP grants for individuals and couples until they reached these minimum levels in June 2011 and November 2009, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

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 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Increase in State Funding for Local Child Support Agencies

Mar 26, 2019 - Should DCSS Create State Team to Frequently Evaluate Status of Zero ‑Order Cases? In some cases, child support orders are set at zero —referred to as a zero ‑order case —if the noncustodial parent has little income or no ability to earn income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3989