The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - Coronavirus Disease 2019-Related Flexibilities in Adult Protective Services (APS) Program. In March  2020, the state allowed county APS offices to supplant immediate in-person visits with a phone call for reports that do not involve immediate life threats such as physical and sexual abuse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/8

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Home Safe provides homelessness prevention and housing interventions to support safety and housing stability for individuals served by the local APS agency. 2025-26 DSS Housing and Homelessness Spending Plan Makes One-Time Augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/7

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Funding for New CAPP Slots Is Awarded to Existing Alternative Payment (AP) Agencies. DSS currently contracts with about 70 regional AP agencies to administer CAPP. AP agencies ’ primary responsibilities are to determine a family ’s eligibility for child care, make payments to the child care provider of a family ’s choice, collect fees from
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - At the bottom of the figure, we display the total reserves planned for the end of 2020 ‑21 under the administration ’s estimates and assumptions. Under the Governor ’s proposed budget, the state would end 2020 ‑21 with $20. 5  b illion in total reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services

Oct 17, 2019 - Provides One-Time Funds for Adult Protective Services (APS) and Public Administrator/Guardian/Conservator (PA/PG/PC) Training. The 2016 ‑17 budget provided $3  million in one-time funding to develop training infrastructure for APS social workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4104

The 2022-23 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 2, 2022 - June 30, 2020 Social Worker Outreach IHSS and APS social workers perform out ‑bound calls and/or visits to elderly recipients to ensure at ‑risk recipients are receiving services they need and are safe in their homes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4512

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

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  5, from 2013-14 through 2020-21, the maximum combined SSI/SSP monthly grant amount for individuals (the bulk of the SSI/SSP caseload) and couples had increased on average by 1.2  percent annually —predominantly due to the provision of federal SSI COLAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Despite slower caseload growth between 2016 ‑17 and 2020 ‑21 (the caseload continued to grow during this period, just at a slower than usual rate). As seen in Figure  4, the IHSS caseload growth rate has since grown at historic rates —reaching a growth rate of 10.3  percent in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - From 2018 through the first half of 2020, the trend was roughly flat around 500 deaths per quarter. These deaths jumped to 673 in the third quarter of 2020, then to 723 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3