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 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - As a result, under this proposal, all IHSS recipients who became ineligible for Medi-Cal would be automatically terminated from the IHSS program. At the time of May Revision, the administration estimated this proposal to save no money in 2025- 26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - The state has full discretion over whether and how to provide increases to the SSP portion of the grant. Until it was ended in 2011, the state had a statutory annual COLA. These COLAs generally reflected whole-grant COLAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - To what extent and how have DSS and program partners been able to address these issues? Is further Legislative guidance (or anything else) needed to address any remaining barriers? For programs that received one-time funding or augmentations, how sustainable are program gains?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The Legislature can use excess revenues in three ways: (1)  appropriate more money for purposes excluded from the SAL (under the Governor ’s proposal, the common new spending for this purpose is capital outlay), (2)  split the excess between additional school and community college district spending and taxpayer rebates, or (3)  lower tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - (Many CalWORKs families have unaided members who are excluded from the grant calculation because they are ineligible for assistance for various reasons.) Figure  6 displays how current CalWORKs grant levels compare to the FPL for a household of one larger than the number of aided members in the CalWORKs family.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

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

Feb 21, 2025 - What feedback has the administration received from counties surrounding possible local administrative costs or savings associated with pilot implementation? How does it intend to get county input on potential costs or savings?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Below, we take a look at how the average cost per hour of IHSS has changed over  time. Cost Per Hour Has Increased Alongside Minimum Wage Increases. The Governor ’s budget estimates that the cost per hour of IHSS services will continue to increase from $21.85 in 2025 ‑26 to $22.36 in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The goals of the outreach effort are to (1)  improve labor law compliance among individuals and families who employ domestic workers in their home and (2)  increase domestic workers ’ awareness of their employment protections under state law and how to recover unpaid wages from their employer if labor law violations occur.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101