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 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 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The administration estimates that implementing the Tiered Rate Structure will cost more than $300  million General Fund in 2027-28, $500  million in 2028-29, and $700  million General Fund in 2029-30 (with some potential growth thereafter and ongoing).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Statute required the Department of Finance to estimate what percentage grant increase could be supported by a half-year cost of $291  million in 2021-22 (estimated to be about $580  million in 2022-23), a half-year cost of $150  million in 2022-23 (estimated to be about $300  million in 2023-24), and a half-year cost of $146  million in 2023-24 (estimated to be about $292  million in 2024-25).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As seen in Figure  7 , the 2019 IHSS MOE reduced the base county costs in 2019 ‑20 to roughly $1.6  billion, decreasing IHSS county costs by roughly $300  million relative to 2018 ‑19. The 2019 IHSS MOE was also set to increase annually by (1)  the counties ’ share of costs from locally negotiated wage increases and (2)  an annual adjustment factor of  4  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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 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 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Increases Revenue by Around $300   Million. The Governor ’s budget proposes to change the rules about how taxable profits are determined for financial institutions. The administration estimates this change would increase revenues on an ongoing basis by around $300  million per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Statute required the Department of Finance to estimate what percentage grant increase could be supported by a half-year cost of $291  million in 2021-22 (estimated to be about $580  million in 2022-23), a half-year cost of $150  million in 2022-23 (estimated to be about $300  million in 2023-24), and a half-year of cost of $146  million in 2023-24 (estimated to be about $292  million in 2024-25).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Based on the scope of the contract, the administration now anticipates (1)  savings of $425  million in 2025-26 from two departments ($300  million from DHCS and $125  million from CDCR) and (2)  unknown savings in the outyears.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/