The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Of these, about 665,500 are estimated t o not meet the requirement, becoming at risk of losing food assistance. Any discontinuances would gradually occur over 12 months as affected recipients undergo annual recertification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - M &O. Once IT project D &I is completed, a project becomes an IT system and enters M &O. M &O includes activities and costs associated with a state entity ’s ongoing upkeep and continuing use of a system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - It is also worth noting that consistent incremental differences in maltreatment substantiation rates occur not only between older teenagers and younger children, but are a pattern that can be observed across the entire age spectrum for youth in the state —and therefore might be due to factors that do not uniquely affect youth ages 14 t o 17 c ompared to all other youth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of Social Services

Feb 24, 2020 - We have reviewed the caseload projections in light of actual caseload data available to date and do not recommend any adjustments at this time. Increasing Paid Hours Per Case. Over the past ten years, the average number of monthly hours per case for IHSS has increased by 29  p ercent, from about 87 p aid hours in 2009 ‑ 10 t o an estimated 112 p aid hours in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4175

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

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

Mar 6, 2026 - We find that designating the vast majority of private activity bonds for this purpose, as CDLAC has done, is consistent with good public policy given (1)  the state ’s priority to support more affordable housing and that (2)  doing so unlocks federal funding via the 4   percent tax credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

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 - We have reviewed the caseload projections in light of actual caseload data available to date and do not recommend any adjustments at this time. Increasing Paid Hours Per Case. Over the past ten years, the average amount of paid monthly hours per case for IHSS has increased by 26  p ercent, from about 86 hours in 2008 ‑ 09 t o an estimated 109 hours in 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3947

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - What do youth and families view as the most notable results or effects of the funding? What have been obstacles, challenges, or delays to implementation? To what extent and how have DSS and program partners been able to address these issues?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Some of these conditions attempt to align the forthcoming May Revision budget proposal (which we discuss later) with the project cost documents o r incorporate additional information that is only available once the primary vendor contract is awarded (such as updated project management and testing plans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011