The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CalFresh/CFAP caseload (as of November 2024) increased 60  percent since the beginning of 2019-20, although annual rates of growth have varied from year to year. Multiple factors likely contributed to this growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - As shown in Figure  21 , citations issued by CHP for driving over 100 miles per hour nearly doubled between 2019 and 2020. CHP citations for driving over 100 miles per hour declined a bit after 2020, but the number of such citations was still 29  percent higher in 2023 than in  2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure  4 shows how CalWORKs caseload has changed since 2019-20. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, CalWORKs caseload began what was a historically anomalous decrease given high unemployment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Since 2019-20, LCSAs have received a few augmentations based on the standardized funding methodology. In total, these augmentations have resulted in increased funding of $51.4  million General Fund ($152.2  million total funds) for LCSA administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/7

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The Diaper Bank program received three other one-time appropriations over the last six years —$10  million through the 2018-19 Budget Act , $8  million in 2019-20, and $30  million in 2021-22 (all General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - Status: Housing Navigators funded as part of 2019 ‑20 budget and expanded to become HNMP in 2022 ‑23. General Fund allocations: $13.7 million annually Counties: 51 counties have been allocated funding in 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - Funding for LCSAs Background LCSA Administrative Funding Methodology Created in 2019-20. The 2019-20 budget included a new methodology to determine the appropriate annual funding amount for each LCSA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

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 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Support Program Proposals

Feb 18, 2022 - Number of Underfunded LCSAs and Total LCSA Funding Needs Increased Relative to 2019 ‑20 Estimates. Since 2019 ‑20, more LCSAs have been identified as underfunded under the funding methodology (21 LCSAs to 31 LCSAs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4550

Comparing CalWORKs Take-Up Rates Across Demographic Groups

Feb 14, 2023 - Recognizing this, we will focus on data collected between 2005 and 2019 throughout this brief. We expect these data to best represent the CalWORKs‑eligible and enrolled populations in a “typical” year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4678