Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - Some Low-Income Californians Are Not Eligible for Cash Assistance. Although the cash assistance in the CARES Act is far more broad-based than in other cash assistance programs, it is still limited in two important ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Cash, Food, and Medical Assistance Can Offset Housing Costs a (In Millions) Free and reduced price lunch 2,838 $4,097 a Where possible, we tried to identify funding targeting children and families. b Earned Income Tax Credit amounts reflect combination of federal tax year data and state fiscal year data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

Nutrition Programs in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Mar 25, 2020 - Most notably, about 4  million low-income Californians receive more than $6  billion annually in in federally funded monthly cash assistance for purchasing food through CalFresh, California ’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4211

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime Grant Program Reversion. To help address the fiscal difficulties facing the state, the budget reverts $50  million General Fund from the Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime pilot program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2018-19 Budget: Evaluating FI$Cal

Mar 2, 2018 - The FI$Cal Project replaces the state ’s aging and decentralized IT financial systems with a new system that will integrate the state ’s budgeting, accounting, cash management, and procurement processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3768

The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - Security properties that have not yet been liquidated to cash represent about 5  percent of total unclaimed property held by the SCO. When owners claim security properties, they are either given the property itself, or if it has been liquidated to cash, the cash value of the property at the time of its sale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - However, the administration indicates that the work could have other benefits, such as improving the quality of health care or reducing unnecessarily bureaucratic processes, thereby freeing up staff time to address other workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Cannabis‑Related Proposals

Feb 14, 2020 - Opportunity for Resource Sharing Possible in Cash Collection. EDD ’s proposal includes resources to enable it to collect payroll tax payments from cannabis businesses in cash. However, we find that it is unclear why EDD needs to perform its own cash collection activities rather than leveraging those that are already in place at CDTFA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4162

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - We consider this “flexible funding, ” because, essentially, these additional federal funds free up General Fund dollars that can be spent on any purpose. Designated Funding Unemployment Insurance (UI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - As the figure shows, most of the discretionary increases are to finance some capital outlay projects with cash instead of lease revenue bonds. This increases the size of the budget  problem. $800   Million in Other Differences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662