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

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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 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 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 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - To what extent are realignment funds used to support CalFresh administration today versus other county funds? How will increased county costs for CalFresh administration under H.R.  1 affect efforts to reduce payment error rates?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Lower‑Income Families Disproportionately Represented Most of California ’s Families Involved With the Child Welfare System Live in Poverty. We do not have aggregated data about family income level for those involved with the child welfare system, but available data reflect that the majority of children in foster care live in deep poverty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

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 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - More specifically, those 65 and over with a disability impacting independent living has increased by 17  percent. The share of IHSS recipients over age 65, however, has remained a relatively consistent share of the overall IHSS population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The Potential Effects of Ending the SSI Cash-Out

Jan 8, 2018 - Unlike Example 1 where the benefit amount would be fixed, in this example, the benefit amount would be adjusted for any household changes, such as income —similar to how the CalFresh program works today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3729

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