The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services

Oct 17, 2019 - In recent years, the Legislature has called for the state to develop a plan for issues related to the growing aging population, including how best to structure state programs to meet the needs of the increasing number of seniors and assess the long-term impact of demographic changes on the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4104

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Child Support Services [Publication Details]

Feb 12, 2021 - Analyzes the Governor’s 2021-22 budget proposals related to the child support program, provides background on recent program developments and state review process of child support guidelines, and provides issues for the Legislature to consider.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4369

The 2020-21 May Revision: CalWORKs Caseload-Driven Costs in the 2020-21 May Revision

Jun 2, 2020 - As noted above, UI benefits contribute to the long lags between initial jobless claims and increased CalWORKs caseload that the state experienced in previous recessions. Recent state and federal actions have expanded UI benefits in two important ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4249

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals

Mar 8, 2019 - Counties pay for 100  p ercent of costs over the state participation cap. (Currently, the state participation cap increases as the state minimum wage increases, remaining $1. 10  p er hour above the state minimum wage.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3962

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Information Security Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2020 - One of the priorities of the Governor’s proposed 2020‑21 budget is to improve information security (IS) across state government entities. The proposed budget includes resource requests for the entities that govern IS for the entire state to increase their operational capacity, as well as resource requests for individual government entities to expand and improve their IS programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4176

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Increase in State Funding for Local Child Support Agencies

Mar 26, 2019 - The new rules may result in a major operational shift for the state ’s child support system. Implementing these updates to the state ’s program may require significant state leadership and legislative involvement and could result in a restructuring of how counties operate child support services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3989

The 2019-20 Budget: Governor's Proposals for Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Feb 28, 2019 - Although federal law allows states to establish their own eligibility criteria for early intervention, it requires each state to identify and serve all children meeting these state ‑specific criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

Federal COVID-19 Response Actions Affecting Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities [Publication Details]

Apr 16, 2020 - This post summarizes key COVID-19 federal actions that affect aging- and disability-related state programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4221

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - A federal and state program that encourages the investment of private equity in the development of affordable rental housing for low ‑income households. The Governors ’ budget proposes to expand the state tax credit program and establish a new state tax credit program that targets households with relatively higher income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

The 2019-20 May Revision: Update to Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals

May 29, 2019 - This reduced counties ’ costs for health care services for this population and increased state costs. In response, the state redirected health realignment funding to offset state costs in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4077