The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - PSL became available on July 1, 2018 for IHSS providers who worked a certain number of hours within a calendar year. In 2018-19, the maximum amount of PSL an IHSS provider could accrue was eight hours per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for CalWORKs

May 29, 2024 - Administration Projects Total CalWORKs Costs to Decrease Year Over Year. The May Revision includes CalWORKs funding of $6.9  billion total funds ($1.2  billion General Fund) in the current year and $6.4  billion total funds ($45  million General Fund) in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4911

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - The administration also proposed $100  million in last-mile project grant funding be delayed from 2024 ‑25 to 2026 ‑27, as well as $250  million from the LLRF be reduced across two fiscal years —$150  million in 2024 ‑25 and $100  million in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Includes Provisional Language Allowing Administration to Increase CCTR Funding Levels Mid ‑Year. The Governor ’s budget proposes provisional budget language that would allow the Department of Finance (DOF) to increase CCTR funding levels mid ‑year if expenditures are “estimated to exceed the expenditures authorized ” in the 2024 ‑25 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare The 2024‑25 Budget Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare This post provides some initial high-level takeaways and considerations for the Legislature regarding May Revision proposals for child welfare programs under the Department of Social Services (DSS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - We recommend the Legislature require CDT and DOF to provide these options by the end of the calendar year to inform the 2024-25 budget process. Consider Phasing in Number of Positions for Larger IS Proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs The 2024‑25 Budget Food Assistance Programs Summary. In this post, we provide background on the state ’s major food assistance programs, CalFresh and the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), provide updates on caseload trends, and analyze the Governor ’s proposed food assistance budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 8, 2024 - This increase would bring total program funding to $11.5  billion ($3.7  billion from the General Fund and $7.8  billion federal funds) in 2024-25. The primary driver of this increase is the full-year cost impact of the 9.2  percent SSP grant increase that took effect on January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The 2023-24 Spending Plan includes $50  million over three years to fund the Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative ($20  million in 2023-24, $20  million in 2024-25, and $10  million in 2025-26). At a high level, the initiative will focus on addressing behavioral health and/or substance use disorder needs of older adults.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2024-25 Budget: CalWORKs

Mar 4, 2024 - The funding and minimum time requirement were designed to ramp up over four years, with the time requirement beginning at 6.25 hours in 2021 ‑22 and increasing by 1.25 hours annually until 2024 ‑25. In 2023 ‑24, the minimum time requirement for intensive cases was 8.75 hours and was scheduled to increase to ten hours in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872