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 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 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - Figure 1 Recent Growth in Key In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Cost Drivers 2011-12 2% a 2016-17 and 2017-18 reflect estimates from the 2017-18 Governor ’s Budget proposal. b These caseload numbers do not include modest increases to IHSS caseload attributed to the Affordable Care Act and the Coordinated Care Initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/2

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

Feb 28, 2017 - After the state reduced SSP grants to the federally required minimum levels, the state could no longer do this. Governor ’s Proposal Full-Year Cost of January 2017 SSP COLA.  The budget includes $73  million from the General Fund for a full year of funding for the COLA increase to the state ’s SSP portion of the grant, which became effective January 1, 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - However, if counties do not conduct timely, federally required reassessments of CFCO recipients, those particular cases are no longer eligible to receive the additional 6  percent FMAP. The cost of this lost 6  percent FMAP must then be reimbursed to the federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - Under the current IHSS financing structure, counties do not have a share of costs associated with increases to the state minimum wage, but do have a share of costs associated with local wage increases above the state minimum wage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

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

Feb 28, 2017 - As noted above, the single allocation budgeting methodology generally does not make adjustments to reflect changes in county cost of doing business. Changes in cost of doing business will vary by county, but, over time, growth in county costs would lead to pressure on the amount of single allocation funding that is provided for a given number of cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/1

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - Traditionally, each RC has required service providers in its catchment area to observe a certain number of holidays each year, meaning service providers cannot bill for services on those days (in practice, most do not provide services on those days, and if they do, they go uncompensated).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Department of Social Services Budget

Feb 22, 2019 - While we do not raise any major concerns at this time, based on recent growth trends in hours per case, it is likely that average hours per case in 2018 ‑19 would be higher than (as opposed to remain the same as) actual 2017 ‑18 average hours per case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3947

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

Mar 5, 2026 - What role do county policies and processes and the design and operation of automation and data systems play in determining the state ’s error rates in each program? Do some counties have significantly higher or lower error rates than others and are there practices or other circumstances that contribute to this  variation?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149