Sequestering Savings From the Closure of Developmental Centers

Jan 31, 2018 - The lease stipulated that units would be reserved first for Fairview DC employees and it also reserved a certain share for DDS consumers transitioning from Fairview DC into community living situations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3735

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - A disproportionate share of deaths had occurred among consumers living in congregate settings, such as skilled nursing facilities. Developmental Centers (DCs) Are Providing Surge Capacity. Fairview DC and Porterville DC ’s general treatment area —both of which had moved their final residents by February 2020 —have been set up as health care surge
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/1

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - The consumers who currently live at closure DCs, especially Fairview DC, tend to be more medically fragile or have more intensive behavioral treatment needs, on average, than residents who moved in previous years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

Fiscal Outlook: Developmental Services

Nov 15, 2017 - Sonoma DC in Sonoma County is scheduled to close at the end of 2018, while Fairview DC in Orange County and the general treatment area (GTA) of Porterville DC in Tulare County are scheduled to close at the end of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3717

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Disposal of Developmental Center (DC) Properties. The budget includes $23.3  million from the General Fund in 2019 ‑20 to support the disposal of two DC properties. First, for the Sonoma DC —whose final residents moved out in 2018 —the budget includes $21.1  million from the General Fund in 2019 ‑20 (and a total of $43.7  million over three
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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 - 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 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 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 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - This overall increase is the effect of higher underlying costs from growing caseload and increased maximum benefit allotments (after implementation of a federal cost-of-living adjustment on October 1, 2024).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971