The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Update on Paid Sick Leave Implementation Paid Sick Leave (PSL) Established for IHSS Providers in 2018-19. PSL became available on July 1, 2018 for IHSS providers who worked a certain number of hours within a calendar year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 expands the allowable uses of federal Title IV-E funding to include evidence-based and federally approved services to help prevent children and families from entering (or re-entering) the foster care system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As part of the 2018-19 Budget Act , the Legislature set a goal to increase CalWORKs grants to 50  percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family that is one person larger than the AU size (to account for CalWORKs households in which the actual family size is larger than the CalWORKs AU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969