The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure 3 2025 ‑26 Funding for Other CDSS ‑Administered State and Federal Food Assistance Programs (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - CalSAWS was introduced in 2019 and, as of October 2023, all 58 counties use the system. The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - COVID ‑19 temporary FMAP increase ‑100 Federal augmentation projected to end June 30, 2022. One ‑time funding to counties ‑85 One ‑time support in 2021 ‑22. COVID ‑19 pandemic assistance for resource families ‑80 ‑80 One ‑time funding in 2021 ‑22 to provide lump ‑sum payments to resource families in response to pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) provides about $50  million annually in federal funding to 49 California food banks (serving all 58 counties) to purchase and distribute food to low-income families.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/2

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - To qualify for CalWORKs, families generally must earn less than about 80 percent of the FPL (about $20,000 annually or $1,700 per month for a family of three in 2024) and have limited savings or other assets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Mar 3, 2026 - 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. In past years, the Department of Social Services (DSS) has noted that a potential driver of this steady caseload decline may be fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The permanent backup provider system was first implemented in October 2022 and was designed to provide up to 80 hours of backup provider services per fiscal year to any recipient who has an urgent need or whose health and safety will be at risk without a backup provider.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/4

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - The 2022-23 budget codified a policy framework for the permanent backup provide system. Under the permanent backup provider system, a recipient whose regular provider is not available, but who has an urgent need or whose health and safety will be at risk without a backup provider, can receive up to 80 hours (if recipient is non-severely impai red) or 160 hours (if recipient is severely impaired) of backup provider services per fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - The Governor ’s budget proposal delays $80  million General Fund for the BFH program to 2025-26. The program received two one-time augmentations of $92.5  million General Fund in 2021-22 and 2022-23, each with three years of expenditure authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

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