The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The Governor proposes to pay down $8.4  billion of this amount, with districts receiving the associated cash in 2021 ‑22. Slightly more than $4  billion would remain deferred from 2021 ‑22 to 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 10, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details] Description: This report provides a brief summary and initial assessment of the proposed 2021-22 Governor’s Budget. Correction 1/11/21: Totals for immediate and early action proposals have been corrected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4309

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

Feb 13, 2025 - After the Great Recession, SSP grants occasionally were increased by applying the CNI only to the SSP portion of the grant (in 2016-17 and 2021-22). Additionally, while not COLAs, SSP grant increases were provided in 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - The 2021-22 budget included $5  million General Fund to create a permanent IHSS backup provider system on January 1, 2022, contingent on a policy framework being adopted in statute. However, a policy framework for the permanent backup provider system was not adopted within the 2021-22 budget period, resulting in the initial $5  million allocation going unspent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Growth throughout 2021 and beyond. Study Using Same Data Source Displays Very Different Trend. Figure  1, Panel C in Wang et al (2024) displays monthly buprenorphine prescriptions from CURES. This figure shows no abrupt increase in early 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - This decline continued until September 2021, the month during which a federal bonus for Unemployment Insurance benefits expired. Caseload generally increased month over month (with few exceptions) from September 2021 to September 2024 (the most recent month for which caseload data are available).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - Beginning July 2021 (with the implementation of Cal-OAR), counties were required under state law to participate in the Cal-OAR continuous quality improvement (Cal-CQI) process. The Cal-CQI process occurs over the course of five-year cycles, the first of which is July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - The federal government annually adjusts CalFresh benefits in accordance with changes in the cost of food, and in addition to this annual adjustment, made a major upward revision in 2021 when it revised the contents of the “Thrifty Food Plan ” (the meal plan on which CalFresh benefits are based) to account for developments in nutritional science.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - Figure 2 Budget Reductions Result in Varying Levels of Net Funding Provided for Programs Since 2021 ‑22 a One ‑Time General Fund (In Millions) Program Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program $485 HHAPP Round Five supplemental grants 260 Homeless programs administrative set asides 152 Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention Program 100 Regional Early Action
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The number of staff hours budgeted per intensive case was designed to ramp up over four years, beginning at 6.25 hours (per month per case) in 2021-22 and increasing by 1.25 hours (per month per case) annually until 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2