The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CalFresh benefits can be used to buy most groceries and some prepared food at participating vendors, which include most grocery and convenience stores. Monthly Benefits Vary. Monthly benefits per household vary based on household size, income, and deductible living expenses —with larger households generally receiving more benefits than smaller households and relatively higher-income households generally receiving fewer benefits than lower-income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Only families with children under age 18 can qualify for CalWORKs, with limited exceptions. Eligibility status can also vary by individual within a family.States have some flexibility in setting eligibility requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Feb 21, 2025 - Families also generally can only have limited assets (such as property or savings). Only families with children under age 18 can qualify for CalWORKs, with limited exceptions. Eligibility status can also vary by individual within a family.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - When program costs are lower than expected, the state may have unspent TANF funds remaining at the end of the fiscal year (as mentioned above, the state generally must spend the full MOE amount in state and local funds each year but can carry forward unspent TANF funds to future years).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Providers who had already completed trainings were still able to claim incentive payments up to November 2024. As of D ecember 2024, the Career Pathways program had accrued nearly $90  million worth of expenditures above their HCBS allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Tiered Rate Structure: CANS model fidelity and training support 2 1 New funding to support statewide fidelity in completing CANS assessments, which are an essential component of implementing the permanent foster care rate structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - Only two milestones —milestone 7.1 (Case Management Assessment) and milestone 26.1 (Facility Management System) —are currently delayed, but the status of each remaining milestone can change month-to-month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - (An incremental and iterative approach is one that delivers system functionalities to a department as they are developed, so a department can use and improve them over time instead of at the end of system development.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - As a result, the Legislature can expect at least the approved baseline project cost of about $1.2  billion and the specific amounts from each funding source to be further refined after the revised cost documents are submitted to CDT.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Instead, the gains appear largely tied to the booming stock market, a situation which can change rapidly and without warning. The  administration appears to share some of these concerns, noting recent job losses among high ‑wage workers and the risks posed by the inherent volatility of tax receipts tied to stock market gains.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951