The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Costs Revised Downward for Recipients Age 26-49. As shown in Figure  3, for the 26 to 49 expansion age group, the Governor ’s budget includes roughly $3.4  million General Fund in 2024-25. This is approximately $17.8  million less than what was originally appropriated in the 2024-25 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure 3 2025 ‑26 Funding for Other CDSS ‑Administered State and Federal Food Assistance Programs (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Ultimately, the spending plan rejected the administration ’s May Revision proposal and instead reduced the permanent backup provider system by $3  million General Fund, leaving the permanent backup provider system with $8.6  million in 2024-25 ($5.6  million for services and $3  million for administration).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/4

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - CalSAWS was introduced in 2019 and, as of October 2023, all 58 counties use the system. The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As seen in Figure  3 , IHSS caseload has grown significantly since 2013. Despite slower caseload growth between 2016 ‑17 and 2020 ‑21 (the caseload continued to grow during this period, just at a slower than usual rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - …While Costs for the Expansion of Medi-Cal to Undocumented Individuals Aged 26-49 Are Expected to Phase-In in 2024-25. Although the expansion of IHSS to undocumented individuals aged 26-49 began January 1, 2024, the administration does not assume that there will be any costs in the IHSS program for this expansion in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Figure  3 shows the 3.6  percent increase will raise grants for all AU sizes in high-cost counties to between 45  percent and 49  percent of the FPL for a family one person larger than the AU size, and to slightly lower levels for families in lower-cost counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/2

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

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  3, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 0.9  percent in both 2025-26 and 2026-27. In past years, the Department of Social Services (DSS) has noted that a potential driver of this steady caseload decline may be fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - As shown in Figure  3, the amount of TANF used to support CalWORKs has changed from year to year. During the COVID-19 pandemic the state significantly overestimated CalWORKs caseload and spending, largely due to unprecedented federal and state policy responses that led to historically unusual enrollment trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - COVID ‑19 support for former NMDs and flexibilities within EFC ‑55 ‑49 Limited ‑term funding to support NMDs and former NMDs who would have aged out or lost eligibility for EFC. Support ended December 31, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558