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

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Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - Families may earn non-CalWORKs income of up to $500 a month without affecting their grant, but for each additional dollar they earn above $500 their grant is reduced by 50 cents. In 2019 ‑20. the maximum family grant for a family of three was $785.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - For example, the most recent Women’s Earnings in State Civil Service report identified that the median woman in state service earns about 14 percent less than the median man in state service. The report explains that this pay gap exists primarily because women tend to work in classifications that are lower paid than the classifications that men dominate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

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

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The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan reflects an additional set of requirements that providers will need to satisfy in order to be eligible to earn the quality incentive portion of rate models beginning in July 2026. Specifically, providers will need to comply with Electronic Visit Verification, federal Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS), and independent audit and fiscal review requirement s.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Health and Human Services)

Jun 19, 2015 - Establishes New Earned Income Tax Credit. The budget package includes $380  million General Fund for a new Earned Income Tax Credit, designed to increase the after –tax income of the state ’s workers with the lowest incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3277

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - To be eligible, households generally must earn less than 200  percent of the federal poverty level. CalFresh benefits can be used to buy most groceries and some prepared food at participating vendors, which include most grocery and convenience stores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - The first of these was requiring the development of a standardized appraisal, known as the Online CalWORKs Appraisal Tool (OCAT), which is used with all new CalWORKs participants to identify potential barriers to employment before they begin welfare ‑to ‑work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

Federal COVID-19 Response Actions Affecting Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

Apr 16, 2020 - Under the CARES Act, adults earning less than $75,000 are generally eligible for a one-time cash payment of $1,200, and $500 for each child. Eligibility will be determined primarily through an individual ’s most recent tax filing (2019 for those who have already filed, 2018 otherwise).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4221