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

Mar 5, 2026 - Without a methodology that links funding to workload, funding could become insufficient or exceed what is required for efficient operations without a clear way of assessing what adjustments are needed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Some questions for the Legislature to consider as it oversees these programs include: What are the major outputs, outcomes, and impacts of the funding to date? What do youth and families view as the most notable results or effects of the funding?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Statute specifies which accounts (and therefore programs) should be prioritized for growth in realignment revenues and in what order. For Realignments to Work Well, Several Principles Need to Be Met.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - The Legislature may find that the need and demand for affordable housing is different from what is proposed by the Governor and that proportionally more (or less) funding should be provided for that  purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Beginning October 2027, H.R. 1 requires states to cover a portion of what now are federally funded CalFresh benefits. This state share is only imposed on states that have a payment error rate of 6  percent or higher.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

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

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - The Legislature could work with the administration to understand what options exist to pursue expansion of the federal clearinghouse to include such programs. Consider What Data Legislature Would Want for Future Evaluation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - What are the risk factors that could delay implementation? What would be the impacts of delayed implementation? Our office plans to publish a more detailed analysis of the CWS-CARES project and budget proposal —with additional comments and questions for legislative consideration —in the coming weeks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - What do families and counties view as the most notable results or effects of these services? What challenges have counties faced in implementing CalWORKs in recent years? What challenges have CalWORKs participants faced in achieving self-sufficiency and family well-being?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969