The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Figure 2 All Funds (Dollars in Millions) 2022 ‑23 Revised
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Figure 2 All Funds (Dollars in Millions) 2021 ‑22 Revised
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - WINS benefits are considered TANF assistance, as the program is funded with MOE dollars, and households receiving the benefit are included in the state ’s WPR calculations. FRA Set New Rules for Benefits Like WINS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - Figure 1 CalFresh and CFAP Budget Summary (Dollars in Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan reflects an additional set of requirements that providers will need to satisfy in order to be eligible to earn the quality incentive portion of rate models beginning in July 2026. Specifically, providers will need to comply with Electronic Visit Verification, federal Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS), and independent audit and fiscal review requirement s.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - To be eligible, households generally must earn less than 200  percent of the federal poverty level. CalFresh benefits can be used to buy most groceries and some prepared food at participating vendors, which include most grocery and convenience stores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - Families may earn non-CalWORKs income of up to $500 a month without affecting their grant, but for each additional dollar they earn above $500 their grant is reduced by 50 cents. In 2019 ‑20. the maximum family grant for a family of three was $785.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - As a result, counties can only use local and state block grant dollars to implement new or expand existing prevention services in the meantime. Some counties are taking the approach of trying to hold off on using some of their state block grant dollars until they can begin drawing down Title IV ‑E matching funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - The earning levels of those individuals six and 12 months after program exit. Whole family income levels during and after program participation, including employment earnings; tax credits; child support payments; and other income supports or benefits, including SSI/SSP and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program assistance (CalFresh in California).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - To be eligible, households generally must earn less than 200  percent of the federal poverty level. CalFresh benefits can be used to buy most groceries and some prepared food at participating vendors, which include most grocery and convenience stores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971