Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Particularly in smaller and more rural counties with relatively fewer providers, counties raised issues related to hiring and maintaining qualified staff and meeting EBP model fidelity requirements around staff training, data tracking, and other elements due to high costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Based on the state ’s most recently measured payment error rate of 11  percent, the state would have a 15  percent share of CalFresh benefit costs, resulting in about $2  billion in new annual costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In order to qualify for IHSS, a recipient must be aged, blind, or disabled, and be low income. In  most cases recipients have income below the level necessary to qualify for the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment cash assistance program (for example, about $1,234 a month for an aged and/or disabled individual living independently in 2025 ‑26).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare Full Implementation Underway CWS ‑CARES Nearly $2 billion provided over life of project, including $180 million in 2026 ‑27 included in Governor ’s budget. Statewide launch of version 1 planned for October 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Mar 6, 2026 - Such an approach, though, would work at cross ‑purposes with the state ’s policy goals of (1)  reducing the number of places and times a developer must apply and (2)  no longer potentially having scenarios in which a project is approved by one state entity but rejected by another.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148