The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services ‑$51 Notes: Includes associated automation costs. AAP = Adoption Assistance Program, KinGAP = Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program, and ARC = Approved Relative Caregiver Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Based on these calculations, SSP grants increased by 23.95  percent on January 1, 2022 (increasing grants by $39 for individuals and $98 for couples); by 10.3  percent on January 1, 2023 (increasing grants by about $21 for individuals and $52 for couples); and by 9.2  percent on January 1, 2024 (increasing grants by about $20 for individuals and $51 for couples).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Ultimately, 51 counties and 2 Title IV ‑E tribes opted to participate and are receiving the one ‑time state block grant dollars. To participate, DSS required counties to prepare CPPs for approval by DSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Feb 8, 2024 - Based on these calculations, SSP grants increased by 23.95  percent on January 1, 2022 (increasing grants by $39 for individuals and $98 for couples), by 10.3  percent on January 1, 2023 (increasing grants by about $21 for individuals and $52 for couples) and by 9.2  percent on January 1, 2024 (increasing grants by about $20 for individuals and $51 for couples).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - About 51  percent of CalWORKs heads of household were Hispanic in 2022, while about 43  percent of heads of household across California (including those not in CalWORKs) were Hispanic in 2023. About 20  percent of CalWORKs heads of household were Black, compared to about 5  percent of all heads of  household.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - General Fund allocations: $13.7 million annually Counties: 51 counties have been allocated funding in 2023. Expenditures: Unknown. Grantees have multiple years to expend funding. Total youth served in 2023: Unknown how many total youth are served by HNMP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - Starting in 2009, the state enacted a series of policy changes (rebranding the program, eliminating asset requirements, promoting online and telephone applications, and reducing the amount of paperwork necessary to remain enrolled in the program) which increased the measured participation rate from 51  percent to 71  percent between 2010 and 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - General Fund Condition Excluding Policy Choices, Revenues Higher by $51  Billion Compared to Governor ’s Budget. Reflecting very strong cash collections in recent months, the May Revision adjusts 2020 ‑21 revenues (and transfers) up by $26.8  billion to $182  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - The spending plan provides $2.9  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22, which ramps up to $51  million General Fund by 2023 ‑24 and ongoing, for the training and certification of DSPs and associated increases in DSP wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/1

FI$Cal IT Project Update—Special Project Report 8

Jan 8, 2020 - Recent data from FI$Cal show the project did not meet its goal for the 2018 ‑19 fiscal year by a significant margin —only 77 o ut of 152 (or 51  p ercent) departments using FI$Cal closed their financial statements by October.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4132