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

Mar 3, 2026 - Specifically, at the county level, DSS compares the maximum SSI/SSP grant amount for individuals to the FMR of an efficiency unit (an apartment unit with no separately enclosed bedroom, similar to a studio apartment) and the maximum SSI/SSP grant amount for couples to the FMR of a one-bedroom unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

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

Mar 5, 2026 - For  example, the CalWORKs methodology puts some limits on the magnitude of year ‑to ‑year, caseload ‑driven adjustments to administrative funding to minimize volatility that can be disruptive to counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - As noted earlier, the state provided $222.4  million in 2021 ‑22, with multiple years of expenditure authority, to support counties with initial implementation of prevention services under the FFPS program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Caseload growth then hovered between 4.5  percent and 8  percent for the next six years. However, following the passage of several service reductions, eligibility changes, and anti ‑fraud initiatives, the IHSS caseload actually declined year over year by 0.2  percent in 2009 ‑10 and declined again by 0.02  percent in 2011 ‑12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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

Mar 3, 2026 - We note that while the year-over-year change in General Fund costs for the program is relatively flat, it is increasing slightly despite the fact that caseload is expected to decline and the average state cost for grants is remaining flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - The drawback of the Governor ’s proposed language is that, even if it were clear ahead of time to CDLAC and HDFC that the 50  percent set ‑aside was going to be too high in a particular year, private activity bonds could not be re ‑allocated until toward the end of the year (when CDLAC would be permitted to transfer unallocated resources to the general pool for other developers to access).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The most recent cost estimates we have seen assume a phased implementation approach over three years (2027-28 to 2029-30). Has the administration considered a more gradual or differently structured phase-in of the new rates that could reduce costs at least in the early years of implementation?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - The amount of unspent TANF funds that will be available for a given year often is not known when the budget for that year is passed. Budget projections are revised when unanticipated TANF funds are identified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - California ’s most recent payment error rate, for federal fiscal year 2023-24, is about 11  percent. (The comparable national error rate is similarly about 11  percent.) Payment error rates in California and nationally have risen in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126