The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Funding for the SUN Bucks program —formerly called the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program —increased by about $896  million year over year ($59  million General Fund) relative to 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Temporary managers serve to bring the facility into compliance with the law, or —when necessary due to a permanent license revocation —facilitate a transfer of ownership to a new licensee, or oversee the transfer of residents should the facility be required to close.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 16, 2024 - This post provides background and caseload trend updates for the state’s major food assistance programs--CalFresh and the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP)--and analyzes the Governor’s proposed food assistance budget, which includes no major new proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4845

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - Provides Positions for the Transfer of Homelessness Grant Programs. The 2023-24 budget package transferred the administration of the Homelessness Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program (HHAPP) from the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

Sequestering Savings From the Closure of Developmental Centers

Jan 31, 2018 - For example, the City of Costa Mesa has zoned a portion of Fairview DC property as open space and other portions for single ‑family residential development, public facilities, or recreational uses. (If the land is not sold, but instead transferred to another state department, it would not be subject to local zoning rules.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3735

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Provides funding to eligible cities and Continuums of Care for a variety of short ‑term housing solutions for the homeless, such as shelters and rapid rehousing. Housing and Disability Advocacy Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Some of these funds then had been transferred by the 2022-23 spending plan to provide a state funding supplement to the federally funded LIHWAP —a program with somewhat similar goals but that uses a different program model.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/7

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Requires Updates on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Card Replacement Time Line. The spending plan includes supplemental reporting language requiring CDSS to provide updates to the Legislature on the schedule for EBT card replacement, how the implementation is minimizing risk for consumers, and the interaction of state and federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2