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

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

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 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 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - How does the administration plan to involve stakeholders, including the Legislature, in the selection of the outcome measures? How will benchmarks and targets along each of the selected measures be determined?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - A challenge that nearly every county emphasized is how to sustain their prevention programs financially once their state block grant dollars expire. Even once CWS ‑CARES launches and counties can claim Title IV ‑E reimbursement for eligible EBPs, how to fund the required local match remains a challenge for counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - At the time of May Revision, the administration estimated this proposal to save no money in 2025- 26. The administration later revised the estimated cost savings to be $106.6  million in 2025-26. This proposal was ultimately not adopted as part of the final 2025-26 budget package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Lends money for construction of rental housing projects with units restricted for at least 55 years to households earning less than 60  percent of area median income. Multifamily Housing Program. Provides low ‑interest, long ‑term deferred ‑payment permanent loans for new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional rental housing for lower ‑income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

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