Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - In a series of posts , Comparing CalWORKs Take‑Up Rates Across Demographic Groups , we estimated the CalWORKs take‑up rate—or the percentage of eligible individuals who are actually enrolled in the program—to be about 60 percent in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Feb 21, 2025 - Application Also Suggested Using CalWORKs Take-Up Rate as Outcome Measure. The CalWORKs take-up rate is the percentage of eligible individuals who are actually enrolled in the program (our office previously published a series of posts on the CalWORKs take-up rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Providers who had already completed trainings were still able to claim incentive payments up to November 2024. As of D ecember 2024, the Career Pathways program had accrued nearly $90  million worth of expenditures above their HCBS allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature. Recent budgets have set the SFEU between $3.5  billion and $4  billion. The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - The 2024 ‑25 budget package includes certain other actions in other department budgets pertaining to housing and homelessness, as described in the Human Services write ‑up of the Spending Plan. b Because tax credits are not claimed until the housing units are complete, the General Fund impact of new program funding will not be observed for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The federal Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 allows up to five states to participate in a six-year pilot program to test alternative outcome metrics (in lieu of the existing work participation rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - This  trajectory lines up rather closely with the trend in local stops for moving violations, so changes in enforcement activities conceivably could be contributing to the trend in motor vehicle deaths.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

Comparing CalWORKs Take-Up Rates Across Demographic Groups

Feb 14, 2023 - Comparing CalWORKs Take‑Up Rates by Demographic Groups Take ‑Up Rates Differ Between Families, Children, and Parents. In our last post , we estimated the CalWORKs take‑up rate among families at about 60 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4678

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care 206,500 a Does not include proposed changes to CCTR ramp up under 2024 ‑25 Governor ’s Budget . Funding for New CAPP Slots Is Awarded to Existing Alternative Payment (AP) Agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As a result, federal funds made up a larger proportion of CalWORKs total funds in 2022-23 than in years prior (almost 50 percent of total funds), as shown in Figure 3. 2024-25 TANF Carry Forward May Reflect Expenditure of Remaining Unspent TANF From COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969