The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5011

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

Mar 7, 2025 - These aging systems make it difficult for the state to, for example, change how state employee payroll is calculated and disbursed based on updates to federal and state law. For over two decades, SCO —which is responsible for issuing pay to the state workforce —has led state efforts to plan, develop, and implement a new state payroll system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - States’ TANF grant amounts (which generally do not change from year to year) are largely based on how much federal AFDC funding each state received before TANF replaced the AFDC program in 1996 (AFDC funding was formula‑based and largely driven by caseload and state economic conditions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Apr 29, 2025 - The state ’s current IT project approval process, PAL, helps state entities plan dozens of IT projects each year. State entities then collectively request hundreds of millions of dollars each year through the annual budget process to plan, develop, and implement these projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes [Publication Details]

Apr 29, 2025 - Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Additionally, counties may establish IHSS hourly wages above the state minimum wage through local wage ordinances or, more commonly, collectively bargained agreements. The state, federal government, and coun ties share the cost of IHSS wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - To claim Title IV-E federal funding for these services (the selection of which is detailed in the state ’s five-year Title IV-E prevention plan), the state must meet federal requirements around tracking per-child prevention spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

Feb 21, 2025 - We understand participating states could be removed from the pilot for failing to meet the benchmarks identified in year one. Removed states would again be subject to the same WPR requirements and potential penalties as non-pilot states going forward .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot [Publication Details]

Feb 21, 2025 - In March 2025, the federal government notified the five previously selected pilot states—California, Maine, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Ohio—that these states were deselected from the pilot project. The federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF) indicated it plans to take a new approach to the pilot program and will issue a new request for proposals from states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - The federal government gave states the option to provide state-funded food assistance to populations affected by the 1996 policy change (such as legal permanent residents who arrived less than five years ago).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971