The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Recommendations [Video]

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The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Background [Video]

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The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor’s Proposed Supplemental Pension Payment to CalPERS

Mar 4, 2019 - Alternative Payment Options To address the shortcomings we have identified with the Governor ’s plan, we offer a few alternative strategies for the supplemental payment. Figure  4 shows how the payments and gross savings would be distributed among CalPERS plans for the Governor ’s proposal and the three alternatives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3957

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Withheld Payments. Whether withholding payments has deterred prime contractors from failing to provide accurate certifications. Our review of the DVBE program relies on data and information provided by DGS program staff, as well as discussions with various stakeholders and  CalVet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2025 - As required by Chapter 80 of 2020 (SB 588, Archuleta), this brief reviews California’s Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) program. Specifically, it focuses on policies and practices designed to prevent program abuse and noncompliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Accordingly, Chapter  110 (SB  156, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) appropriated an additional $372  million General Fund to CalPERS as a supplemental pension payment to satisfy the Proposition  2 requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - As a result, EDD experienced an historic increase in UI applications that strained the department ’s existing IT systems and (together with other factors) led to delays in processing and payment of UI claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

Federal COVID-19-Related Funding to California

Apr 28, 2020 - These payments are the focus of the first part of this post. Direct Payments to Private Entities. Payments to nonpublic entities are shown on the left side of Figure  1. These include payments to private entities (including businesses and nonprofits) and payments made directly to individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4226

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 Governor ’s Budget proposes to use approximately $410  million of required debt payment funding for the same purpose. We note that the 2021 ‑22 proposed payment is in line with our previous recommendations for allocating Proposition  2 debt payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400