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

Mar 3, 2026 - Further, most SSI/SSP recipients (roughly 62  percent) live in the 16 counties with the highest FMRs, all of which are located within the coastal and San Francisco Bay regions. In all but one of these 16 counties, the maximum SSI/SSP grant for couples is less than the FMR for a one-bedroom unit (the maximum SSI/SSP grant for couples in Los Angeles is $14 above the FMR for a one-bedroom unit).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - This new methodology was to be implemented no sooner than 2015 ‑16. Although efforts began to develop a revised methodology, none has been implemented to date. This is largely due to other competing policy priorities —for example ACA implementation and COVID ‑19 response efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As such, this brief includes our best understanding of the proposals as of March  16,  2026. As more information becomes available, we will provide updates if necessary. Background Overview of the IHSS Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Budgeted SUN Bucks spending (within the CDSS budget) increases by about $83  million ($16  million General Fund) in 2025-26 compared to 2024-25. This increase largely reflects a shift in the summer 2025 implementation schedule.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan reduces funding for Porterville Developmental Center by $15  million General Fund in 2025-26 and $16  million General Fund from 2026-27 onward. The administration stated that these reductions reflect historical savings relative to budgeted levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - This is estimated to save roughly $16  million General Fund in IHSS costs in 2025-26 (increasing to hundreds of millions of dollars in the outyears). Operational Improvements within the Department of Social Services (DSS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Of these savings, the spending plan reinvests about $4.6  million in 2025-26 and $14  million in 2025-26 and ongoing into the CalWORKs single allocation, resulting in General Fund savings of about $16  million in 2025-26 and $18  million in 2026-27 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - September 16, 2024 —Resubmission of FFY 2025 APDU to ACF. A month later, the project resubmitted its FFY 2025 APDU to ACF with all of the requested updates to project documents and information, including the remediated project schedule that reflects the project ’s holistic design approach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to decline slowly at an average rate of 1.8  percent each year. As shown in Figure  2, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 1.3  percent in 2024-25 and 0.7  percent in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - This increased to 16 hours in 2020-21, 24 hours in 2022-23, and 40 hours on July 1, 2024. The Governor ’s proposed budget includes roughly $89  million in 2024-25 and $122.3  million in 2025-26 for PSL.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009