The 2024-25 Budget: CalWORKs

Mar 4, 2024 - Currently, WINS costs roughly $25 million annually. Because WINS is an MOE‑funded program, WINS households help California meet its WPR requirements. However, the FRA set new rules for programs like WINS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - About 178,000 WINS cases also met TANF work requirements, creating a total TANF/MOE-funded cash assistance caseload of approximately 624,000. Between federal fiscal year 2014 ‑15 and 2022 ‑23, the TANF/MOE-funded cash assistance caseload declined by almost 40  percent, as shown in figure  4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

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

Feb 21, 2025 - CalWORKs Provides Cash Assistance and Supportive Services to Low-Income Families. CalWORKs was created in 1997 in response to 1996 federal welfare reform legislation that created the federal TANF program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2022-23 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 2, 2022 - Background The SSI/SSP program provides cash grants to low ‑income aged, blind, and disabled individuals. Grant levels for SSI/SSP are determined by both the federal government and the state. Specifically, the federal government pays for the SSI portion of the grant while the state pays the SSP  portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4514

The Potential Effects of Ending the SSI Cash-Out

Jan 8, 2018 - In the next section, we provide some examples of how ending the SSI  cash ‑out could impact households differently. Examples Of Potential Impacts of Ending SSI Cash‑Out on Poverty The SRL required that our office evaluate how ending the SSI  cash ‑out would affect the poverty status of households that would either gain or lose food benefits as a result.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3729

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - CDSS = California Department of Social Services; CACFP = Child and Adult Care Food Program; EBT = Electronic Benefit Transfer; TEFAP = The Emergency Food Assistance Program; SNB = Supplemental Nutrition Benefit Program; TNB = Transitional Nutrition Benefit Program; SSI/SSP = Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment; and WINS = Work Incentive Nutritional Suppleme nt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The net savings are largely a result of workload relief-related savings, partially offset by one-time automation and training costs in 2025-26, as well as increased cash assistance costs due to estimated lower sanction rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The total funding for this program also includes costs associated with two other state-funded grant programs: (1)  the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, which provides grants to individuals ineligible for SSI/SSP solely due to immigrant status, and (2)  the California Veterans Cash Benefit program, which provides a supplemental grant payment to veterans receiving payments from the federal Special Veterans Benefit program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - EBT = Electronic Benefit Transfer; CDSS = California Department of Social Services; CACFP = Child and Adult Care Food Program; TEFAP = The Emergency Food Assistance Program; SNB = Supplemental Nutrition Benefit Program; TNB = Transitional Nutrition Benefit Program; SSI/SSP = Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment; and WINS = Work Incentive Nutritional Suppleme nt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Background The SSI/SSP program provides cash grants to low-income aged, blind, and disabled individuals. Grant levels for SSI/SSP are determined by both the federal government and the state. Specifically, the federal government pays for the SSI portion of the grant while the state pays the SSP portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148