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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

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

Feb 21, 2025 - What are the implementation milestones the administration is tracking and working towards (both from the federal government and as determined at the state level)? How does the administration plan to involve the Legislature and other stakeholders throughout the planning and implementation process?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

Dec 8, 2020 - Currently authorized federal relief funding will be expended by 2020, and it is not clear whether additional relief measures will be authorized or for how long. At some point, all relief funding will be expended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4306

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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - More recently, the state allocated $2  million in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18 to improve awareness and take-up of the California Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides money to low-income workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - How might recent and upcoming policy changes, including the recent discontinuation of eligibility flexibilities in Medi ‑Cal in July  2025, upcoming implementation of work requirements in CalFresh and Medi ‑Cal, and more frequent redeterminations in Medi ‑Cal affect error rates in each program?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Participants in the self-determination program are provided an individual budget, a fixed amount of money with which to purchase the services of their choosing. Participants then decide how to use the money in their individual budget by developing a spending plan, which identifies the services and items the participant needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - For example, the most recent Women’s Earnings in State Civil Service report identified that the median woman in state service earns about 14 percent less than the median man in state service. The report explains that this pay gap exists primarily because women tend to work in classifications that are lower paid than the classifications that men dominate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969