The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - However, as part of the Coordinated Care Initiative (CCI), the county share of cost model —which required counties to pay a certain percent of nonfederal IHSS costs —was replaced with an IHSS   MOE —which required county costs to reflect a set amount of nonfederal IHSS costs (which would be adjusted annually by a growth factor and a portion of locally negotiated wage increases).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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

Mar 6, 2026 - Yet, as currently proposed, the Legislature would have no way to assess the extent to which policy changes have that desired impact.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - As part of its oversight of the SNAP program, the federal government calculates the payment error rate, which measures the extent to which benefit payments are higher or lower than they should be based on individual household circumstances.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - In general, expenditures are required to be consistent with four purposes of the federal TANF program, which include: Providing assistance to needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - In May 2025, DHCS clarified (via a joint DSS/DHCS all‑county letter ) Medi‑Cal coverage for EBPs focused on children and youth, including some of the ten EBPs which DSS included in the State Prevention Plan for FFPSA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Children ’s Crisis Continuum Pilot $60 million one ‑time in 2021 ‑22, most of which is available through June 30, 2026. Of the total amount, $4 million is available through June 30, 2027 to allow time to prepare a final report for the Legislature by April 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Mar 3, 2026 - At the time, the administration anticipated that these overcharges would be reconciled with the SSA and the overcharges would be reimbursed in future months —which could be used to offset General Fund costs for SSI/SSP in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

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

Mar 5, 2026 - This approach creates a framework within which the Legislature can assess how best to adjust funding for county administration to respond to changing CalFresh program requirements, including H.R.  1 changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149