The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 16, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs [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/4845

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program [Publication Details]

Feb 8, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program [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/4832

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Support Program Proposals

Feb 18, 2022 - To the extent annual collections continue to decline at a similar rate, the costs associated with the Governor ’s budget proposal could decrease to roughly $45  million half ‑year General Fund in 2022 ‑23 (roughly $95  million General Fund in  2024 ‑25).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4550

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - At the end of the 2022-23 fiscal year, CSD had not yet begun spending the $200  million augmentation for LIHWAP because the department had first been spending down the allocated federal funds ($116  million in 2021-22), for which the performance period will end in March  2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/7

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - As of January 2024, DSS had approved CPPs for 49 counties and 2 tribes (with 1 additional county’s plan still pending approval). Counties will continue to scope their programs and build the needed capacities in the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The spending plan delays the implementation of this program until 2024-25. Increases Provider Rates for Independent Living Services. The 2021-22 spending plan initiated a multiyear plan to phase in a new provider rate model based on a 2020 state-commissioned study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/1

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The budget package also includes language directing the department to reassess the fee structure needed for long-term stability of the Home Care Fund, and p rovides limited-term General Fund resources of $2.3  million in 2023-24 and 2024-25 to support the 15 new positions while CCL carries out the fee structure assessment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Statute specifies that these interim rates will expire December 31, 2024, and that the permanent, ongoing level of care rate structure will be established by January 1, 2025. The administration plans to propo se the new rate structure as part of the 2024-25 Governor ’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/4

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - This year-to-year increase in General Fund reflects a much faster rate of cost growth relative to prior budget estimates. The main reason for the year-to-year General Fund cost increase is the anticipated ramp down of temporary increases to federal Medicaid funds (largely associated with the public health emergency) that were used to offset General Fund costs in the IHSS program in 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/5

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - As part of the 2021-22 Budget Act , the state established a five-year plan to reform service provider rates and rate setting, including implementing a quality incentive program. The spending plan includes an augmentation of $159.1  million General Fund to accelerate this reform, with budget-related legislation further requiring rate reform to be implemented fully a year earlier than initially budgeted —by July  2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1