Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - In a series of posts , Comparing CalWORKs Take‑Up Rates Across Demographic Groups , we estimated the CalWORKs take‑up rate—or the percentage of eligible individuals who are actually enrolled in the program—to be about 60 percent in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Feb 21, 2025 - Application Also Suggested Using CalWORKs Take-Up Rate as Outcome Measure. The CalWORKs take-up rate is the percentage of eligible individuals who are actually enrolled in the program (our office previously published a series of posts on the CalWORKs take-up rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

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: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature. Recent budgets have set the SFEU between $3.5  billion and $4  billion. The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As a result, federal funds made up a larger proportion of CalWORKs total funds in 2022-23 than in years prior (almost 50 percent of total funds), as shown in Figure 3. 2024-25 TANF Carry Forward May Reflect Expenditure of Remaining Unspent TANF From COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - Federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Project Claiming Status Decision Time Line This text box provides the key dates and decision points leading up to ACF ’s determination in October 2024 of a non-Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) claiming status for the state ’s Child Welfare Services – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) information technology (IT) project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

Mar 7, 2025 - The remaining five roles —the reporting coordinator, scope/capability subject matter experts, sponsor, technical coordinator, and training coordinator —require partial time commitments by one or more staff that vary between several hours per calendar quarter to up to 50  percent of available time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Youth transitioning out of foster care are one target population who may be able to receive up to six months of rental assistance, provided through Medi-Cal managed care plans. This new benefit initially will be optional for managed care plans to provide, beginning July 1, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962