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

Feb 21, 2025 - Figure 2 CalWORKs Outcomes and Accountability Review Performance Measures Economic Measures Current and former participant employment rates WTW engagement rate Subsidized to unsubsidized employment rate Sanction rate Wage progression (6 and 12 months after exit) Sanction resolution rate Rate of exits with earnings Orientation attendance rate Rate of program re ‑entries (including
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Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Earned Income Tax Credit. A state and federal income tax credit for low ‑income working families and individuals, which reduces the tax amount owed by the tax ‑filer and, in some cases, may provide eligible filers with a refundable income amount.
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The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - Work Outcomes Reporting Requirements Cal-OAR Captures Most of the Data Needed for New Federal Reporting Requirements. Based on our understanding from the administration, Cal-OAR collects county-level data on job entry, job retention, and median earnings of CalWORKs participants after program exit.
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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.
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Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - A fourth measure —the percentage of CalWORKs participants with earnings sufficient to receive the maximum benefit from the federal earned income tax credit —was added later. In order to receive incentive funding from the Pay for Performance program, counties would either have to make a minimum level of improvement on a given performance measure or rank in the top 20  percent of counties.
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Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - In 2011, it was reduced from 60 months to 48 months (in an effort to reduce costs). In 2022, the limit increased from 48  months to 60 months. Increased Earned Income Disregard (EID). The EID for applicants and participants (or the monthly dollar amount applicants and participants can earn before further income affects eligibility) changed multiple times over the last decade.
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The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

Dec 8, 2020 - The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook The 2021-22 Budget CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook In this post, we describe our most recent forecast for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program costs and discuss recent caseload trends.
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The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services In-Home Supportive Services Summary For 2024-25, the Governor ’s budget proposes approximately $9  billion General Fund, an increase of $1  billion (13  percent) over estimated 2023-24 expenditures for In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS).
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The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services In-Home Supportive Services Summary For the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, the Governor ’s 2025-26 budget proposes approximately $10.6  billion General Fund, an increase of $1.1  billion (11  percent) from the Governor ’s revised 2024-25 budget estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Federal COVID-19 Response Actions Affecting Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

Apr 16, 2020 - Restaurant Home-Delivered Meals to Older Adults. On April 24, the Governor announced a new partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and cities, counties, and tribes to provide home-delivered meals from local restaurants to older adults.
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