The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Support Program Proposals

Feb 18, 2022 - This brief describes the Governor's 2022-23 budget proposals for the child support program and provides comments and recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4550

Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - Juvenile Courts Make Final Decisions on Court Dependency and Foster Care for Children. Juvenile dependency courts have jurisdiction over children in the CWS system and make the final decision on placement and services for the youth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Federal Government Required to Provide Annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) to SSI Grants … The federal government is required to provide an annual COLA each January to the SSI portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - This increase is primarily due to the full-year impact of the federal SSI grant cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) (2.5  percent) and the half-year impact of the federal SSI COLA estimated to be 3.9  percent, effective January 1, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Information Security Proposals

Feb 25, 2020 - CDT ’s OIS expects each entity to receive a cybersecurity maturity score, which is calculated based on a complex formula that uses various information sources (including IS compliance audits and independent security assessments) to score the entity on each metric.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4176

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Extending the funding aims to provide more time for the Children ’s Crisis Continuum Pilot Program to develop a final report for the Legislature by April 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

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

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - This  is most evident in the rate for Independent Living Services, which assumes staffing costs equivalent to Supported Living Services despite the former being a much more intensive service model. In addition, we have heard concerns about the lack of ongoing inflation adjustments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services $1,584.2 $1,595.1 a The maximum monthly grants displayed refer to those for aged and disabled individuals and couples living in their own households, effective as of January 1 of the respective budget year. b Reflects Governor ’s May Revision estimate of the January 2021 federal cost ‑of ‑living adjustment for the SSI portion of the grant —1 .1 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/4

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Specifically, local child support agencies shall presume income to be state minimum wage at 35 hours per week, adjusted downwards to reflect the conditio ns of the labor market where the support obligor lives, with further adjustments based on other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/6