The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Office of Emergency Services The budget provides $4.5  billion for the Governor ’s Office of Emergency Services (OES), primarily from federal funds and the General Fund. This amount represents a decrease of $4.2  billion (48  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2022-23 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 2, 2022 - In order to qualify for IHSS, a recipient must be aged, blind, or disabled and in most cases have income below the level necessary to qualify for the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment cash assistance program (for example, about $1,040 a month for an aged and/or disabled ind ividual living independently in 2021 ‑22).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4512

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Assumes Temporary Ineligibility of Federal Funding for Emergency Child Care Bridge Vouchers, Effectively Reducing Budgeted Slots by Roughly 1,400. The Governor ’s budget provides a total of $94 million ($83  million General Fund, $7  million Title IV ‑E, and $4  million Proposition  64 funds) in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 to support the Bridge program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Expenditure authority for some of the temporary augmentations, such as the Emergency Response increases and components of the complex care needs funding, are set to expire in the current year (June 30, 2026).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Emergency Food for Families funding is 100 percent state tax revenue collections. CDSS = California Department of Social Services; CACFP = Child and Adult Care Food Program; EBT = Electronic Benefit Transfer; TEFAP = The Emergency Food Assistance Program; SNB = Supplemental Nutrition Benefit Program; TNB = Transitional Nutrition Benefit Program; SSI/SSP =
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - (This average monthly benefit does not include the emergency allotments provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which averaged about $99 per person. These emergency allotments ended in February 2023.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Permanently Authorizes the Emergency Food Bank Reserve Program. The Emergency Food Bank Reserve Program, created in the 2 020-21 Budget Act , provides food banks with food and funding to help prevent hunger during natural or human-made disasters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Although on net state spending for child welfare is budgeted to increase in 2025-26 relative to 2024-25, the spending plan does include some budget solutions, including: An Emergency Child Care Bridge program funding reduction to bring ongoing appropriation in line with recent spending trends ($30  million General Fund ongoing reduction). $57.2  million General Fund annually remains for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - The Emergency Food for Families and CalFood Programs provide food commodities and funding for food banks to support C alifornians during emergencies. Disaster CalFresh provides short-term food benefits and supplements to certain natural disaster victims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Emergency child care bridge reduction ‑35 ‑35 May revision proposes to pull back some recently augmented funds for the foster care emergency child care bridge program. The total amount includes funding for vouchers ($25.8 million) and training ($9 million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909