The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - As part of its oversight of the SNAP program, the federal government calculates the payment error rate, which measures the extent to which benefit payments are higher or lower than they should be based on individual household circumstances.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The federal Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2023 mandated federal reimbursement of SNAP (or CalFresh in California) food benefit theft. States may use federal funds to replace SNAP benefits stolen through card skimming, cloning, or scamming from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - Research on the impacts of the SNAP work requirement indicate that it results in increased disenrollment, in part driven by otherwise eligible enrollees not complying with paperwork or tracking requirements (commonly referred to as “administrative burden ”).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CalFresh is California ’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides monthly food assistance to qualifying low-income households. To be eligible, households generally must earn less than 200  percent of the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The federal Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2023 mandated federal reimbursement of food benefit theft from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or CalFresh in California). The spending plan includes $31  million in federal funds for stolen food benefit reimbursements and $12  million in federal funds for county administration and automation related to this theft.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/3

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

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/Report/4845

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723