The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - One possible reason for our higher estimate is that our model reflects not only disenrollment among current enrollees, but also reduced enrollment flows over time and a persistent risk of disenrollment among eligible individuals due to added administrative burden.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

COVID-19: Unemployment Insurance for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020 - During September and October 2020, under a FEMA-funded program called “lost wages assistance, ” UI recipients received an additional $300 weekly for up to six weeks. In December, 2020, H.R. 133 re-instituted the weekly $300 added benefit for January 1, 2021 to March  14, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - As Figure  10 shows with some illustrative numbers, this employment tax raises the cost of adding a new employee to a business and that cost is proportionately higher for a low wage worker than a high wage worker.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Moreover, data generally are not readily available to estimate monthly caseloads and costs of other UIS populations. Without better data at hand, projecting costs for adults with UIS is inherently imprecise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - These efforts added to the already high workload  at  EDD. Under Longstanding EDD Practices, Workers Must Pass Multiple Identity Tests. When an unemployed worker submits a claim for UI payments, EDD confirms the worker ’s identifying information with the federal Social Security Administration and the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - Adding this payment to previous interest payments, the state has spent a total of almost $1.4  billion in General Fund resources servicing the federal loan since the beginning of the recession. The state is estimated to make additional interest payments of $52  million in 2017 and $17  million in 2018 before the loan is projected to be fully repaid in 2018, as shown in Figure  2 below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis [Publication Details]

Mar 2, 2026 - In this report, we analyze the Governor’s budget for Medi-Cal, with a focus on base spending trends, changes to provider taxes, implementation of new H.R. 1 rules, oversight over enacted budget solutions, and considerations for identifying additional savings in Medi-Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5146

The 2020-21 May Revision: CalWORKs Caseload-Driven Costs in the 2020-21 May Revision

Jun 2, 2020 - Specifically, the administration projects CalWORKs added 125,514 cases in March and April, but reports having received 78,837 applications. So far in May, applications have come in not only below the administration ’s projections but also below the number of applications received during May 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4249

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Employment Development Department (7100)t

In conclusion, higher statutory benefits added to an inadequately financed UI system, in conjunction with higher than anticipated unemployment, resulted in the April 2004 shortfall . Smaller Shortfalls Now Anticipated Compared to Prior Forecasts.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/general_govt/gen_14_7100.htm

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - As a result, EDD experienced an historic increase in UI applications that strained the department ’s existing IT systems and (together with other factors) led to delays in processing and payment of UI claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985