Older Youth Access to Foster Care

Mar 22, 2019 - Living situations, including homelessness or living with a parent or guardian, at the time of the report, if available. Number of petitions filed under Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) 329, and time frame of the filing, if available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3980

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 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Increases Provider Rates for Independent Living Services. The 2021-22 spending plan initiated a multiyear plan to phase in a new provider rate model based on a 2020 state-commissioned study. Under this study, independent living services were assumed to have staffing costs equivalent to supported living services, despite the former being a much more intensive service model.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/1

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $20  million General Fund ($33  million total funds) in 2025-26 (9  percent increase relative to 2024-25), due largely to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

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 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In response to this elimination, a new county IHSS MOE was  established in July 2017 —referred  to as the 2017 IHSS MOE. Under the new 2017 IHSS MOE, the counties ’ share of IHSS costs were reset to roughly reflect the counties ’ share of estimated 2017 ‑18 IHSS costs based on historical county cost ‑sharing ratios (35  percent of the nonfederal share of IHSS service costs and  30  percent of the nonfederal share of IHSS administrative costs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CDSS currently anticipates it will begin mass card replacement in late February 2025 and that new cards will be distributed via mail over a period of 12 to 16 weeks (with all new cards deployed by June 30, 2025).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Budget solutions, including: Housing supplement for Supervised Independent Living Placements (SILPs) elimination ($18.8  million General Fund ongoing reduction). Los Angeles County public health nurse pilot program elimination ($8.25  million General Fund ongoing reduction).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

The 2021-22 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 8, 2021 - No Administrative Policy or Statutory Changes Proposed to Support New Programs. The administration has stated that it is relying on existing statutory authority for each of the new programs in the Stabilize Critical Services and IT Infrastructure proposal, and anticipates changes in state administrative policy would be made after the proposal is approved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4356

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