The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Difficult to Account for Interaction Effects. It is important to note that some of these components may be interactive, making it difficult to conclusively attribute a portion of the growth to one specific component.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - In some other cases, counties identified communities by geography, such as those living in certain zip codes with higher rates of foster care entry or those in more remote areas of the county who historically have had lower levels of access to services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Federal Government Required to Provide Annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) to SSI Grants … The federal government is required to provide an annual COLA each January to the SSI portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

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

Mar 5, 2026 - In particular, processes that require manual verification or direct interaction with enrollees present risks that steps will be missed or information falls through the cracks. Automating verification processes and connecting with all available data sources to the extent possible is a key strategy to mitigating the risk that eligible individuals are disenrol led.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149