The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Recent spending plans included funding (about $75 million total funds over multiple years, beginning in 2023-24) to improve EBT card technology and security through the rollout of new cards with chip a nd tap-to-pay technologies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - Under the supervision of DSS, county CWS agencies provide the frontline administration of the CWS system, including: ( 1)  R eceiving reports of child maltreatment, ( 2)  i nvestigating maltreatment reports, ( 3)  r emoving children from unsafe homes, ( 4)  f inding and funding placements for children in foster care, ( 5)  p roviding services to families for reunification, and (
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 3, 2021 - This runs contrary to both the Governor ’s budget (which assumes a fairly rapid rate of caseload growth from 2020 t hrough 202 2) a nd the historic relationship between caseload and economic data (which suggests caseload should increase following increased unemployment).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - DSS expects to receive additional information on the pilot requirements a nd how to apply in spring or summer 2024. Work Outcomes Reporting Requirements Current TANF Reporting Requirements Focus on Measuring Program Participation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2022-23 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 2, 2022 - In order to qualify for IHSS, a recipient must be aged, blind, or disabled and in most cases have income below the level necessary to qualify for the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment cash assistance program (for example, about $1,040 a month for an aged and/or disabled ind ividual living independently in 2021 ‑22).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4512

The 2021-22 Budget: Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Broadband Infrastructure

May 24, 2021 - The Legislature could modify the proposed control section to add specific affordability-related activities a nd expenses it wants to prioritize alongside the administration ’s proposed broadband infrastructure investments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4440

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - Like the single allocation, these allocations generally must be spent within the fiscal year a nd unspent funds revert to the state. Unlike the single allocation, these funds are not flexible and must be spent on the purposes specified in each individual allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/1

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Namely, CCR aims to: ( 1)  e nd long ‑term congregate care placements; ( 2)  i ncrease reliance on home ‑based family placements; ( 3)  i mprove access to supportive services regardless of the kind of foster care placement a child is in; and ( 4)  u tilize universal child and family assessments to improve placement, service, and payment rate decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget Total General Fund Early a nd Immediate Action Proposals $11,520 $1 ,308 $12,823 Note: This table reflects our best understanding of the administration ’s immediate and early action proposals as of January 10, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - How best to ensure child safety in a way that minimizes a nd mitigates trauma and ideally keeps the child with their parent(s)/caregiver(s) is a core tension inherent to the child welfare system. California Increasingly Has Focused on Trauma ‑Informed Care and Prevention.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897