The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - More specifically, those 65 and over with a disability impacting independent living has increased by 17  percent. The share of IHSS recipients over age 65, however, has remained a relatively consistent share of the overall IHSS population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The General Fund —which comprises 65  percent of the total DDS budget —provides $12.2  billion in 2025-26, an increase of 20  percent over revised 2024-25 General Fund expenditures ($10.1  billion). While General Fund spending is increasing by about $2  billion for the regional center system, General Fund spending for state-operated facilities and DDS headquarters is largely flat across the two fiscal years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

Recent Congressional Action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Jan 23, 2018 - As such, for the purposes of the budget, the administration assumed Congress would reauthorize the program for the remainder of the state ’s 2017 ‑18 and 2018 ‑19 fiscal years at the lower, historical federal cost share of 65  percent, meaning the state would contribute 35  percent of the program ’s cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3734

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The General Fund —which comprises 65  percent of the total DDS budget —provides $10.3  billion in 2024-25, up $2.2  billion, or 28  percent, over revised 2023-24 General Fund expenditures (about $8  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/1

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - As a result, the IHSS county MOE will end on July 1, 2017 and be replaced with the prior IHSS program cost-sharing ratio of counties paying 35  percent of nonfederal program costs and the state paying the remaining 65  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/2

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - Therefore, nondisabled, childless adults under age 65 were ineligible for Medicaid regardless of income. Under the ACA, states had the option —which was exercised by California —to expand eligibility for their Medicaid programs to all qualified residents under ag e 65 with household incomes at or below 138 percent of the FPL beginning January 2014.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Health and Human Services (HHS)‑Related Funding to Address Homelessness

May 17, 2018 - The administration proposes to increase the daily maximum voucher amount from $65 to $85. No other changes to the Homeless Assistance Program are proposed. The daily rate was last increased, from $40 per day to $65 per day, in 2006.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3842

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Health and Human Services)

Jun 19, 2015 - The budget package increases funding for high –cost drugs in the Department of Health Care Services by $61  million General Fund (on top of a base budget of $65  million General Fund) and the Department of State Hospitals by $6  million General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3277

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Historically, counties paid for 35  percent of the nonfederal costs associated with locally established IHSS wage and benefit increases and the state paid for the remaining 65  percent up to the state participation cap ($14.10 per hour in 2021).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/4

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Prior law required day programs (and other, similar programs) to bill DDS in increments of full days or half days, with these programs receiving a half-day rate when consumers attended for less than 65  percent of the approved full-day schedule.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1