The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - At least 91 processing departments (and, for some processes, nearly all state departments) will need to onboard to CSPS, but there is currently no information about which processing departments will be included in each of the waves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Passing only what is necessary this year would allow more time for the remaining stakeholder questions and policy issues to be worked out and give the Legislature the chance to assess whether the rates structure is in line with its vision for permanent CC R rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In January 2017, CCI was ended, effectively eliminating the 2012 MOE. In response to this elimination, a new county IHSS MOE was  established in July 2017 —referred  to as the 2017 IHSS MOE. Under the new 2017 IHSS MOE, the counties ’ share of IHSS costs were reset to roughly reflect the counties ’ share of estimated
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - As of December 2024, roughly 91  percent of minor recipients had a paid provider —which is slightly higher, but close to, the utilization rate for the overall IHSS population. The Governor ’s budget includes roughly $47  million in 2024-25 and $49  million in 2025-26, for support of this policy change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - For example, caseload in the IHSS program has more than tripled in the past 27 years, from about 160, 000 i n 1990 ‑ 91 t o an estimated 545, 000 i n 2018 ‑19. (In contrast, the population of California has grown by roughly one ‑third over that same time period.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Since 2017, the state has been implementing interim LOC rates for resource families, Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTPs), Foster Family Agencies, Intensive Services Foster Care, and other specialized models of foster care.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of Social Services

Feb 24, 2020 - Since 2009 ‑10, the average hourly wage for IHSS providers increased by 30  p ercent, from $9. 90 t o an estimated $12. 91 i n 2019 ‑20. (This average IHSS wage reflects the base hourly wages for IHSS providers averaged across all counties.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4175

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Since 2017, the cost of this lost 6  percent FMAP (also referred to as the CFCO late penalty) has been paid for with the General Fund and has grown over time —totaling $63.2  million in 2023-24. In an effort to assist in addressing the state ’s budget problem, as part of the May Revision, the administration proposed to require counties to cover the full cost of the CFCO late penalty beginning in 2025-26 (estimated to save $81  million General Fund in 2025-26).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Figure  1 shows that the average share of authorized cases that are paid every month slightly decreased from 91  percent to 88  percent from January 2019 through December 2023. This translates to roughly 22,000 fewer paid cases every month relative to pre-COVID-19 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The Potential Effects of Ending the SSI Cash-Out

Jan 8, 2018 - (We note that the minimum food benefit amount decreased from $ 16 i n 2016 ‑ 17 t o $ 15 i n 2017 ‑18 and the maximum food benefit amount for a household of one decreased from $ 194 i n 2016 ‑ 17 t o $ 192 i n 2017 ‑18.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3729