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 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

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure   14 , almost 90   percent of CalWORKs heads of household were women in 2022. Among cases with two eligible parents, a smaller proportion of heads of household were women (73   percent), as compared to all cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Feb 22, 2022 - FFPSA Part IV ‑30 ‑3 Some one ‑time support to begin implementing new congregate care requirements. We note that around $57 million total funds ($29 million GF) is ongoing. Placement prior to approval ‑18 ‑11 Maximum duration decreases from 120 days (with possible extension up to 365 days) to 90 days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

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 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Update on Permanent Backup Provider System Permanent Backup Provider System Established in 2022-23 Budget. The 2021-22 budget included $5  million General Fund to create a permanent IHSS backup provider system on January 1, 2022, contingent on a policy framework being adopted in statute.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - Given we estimated the Governor ’s budget solved a $58  billion budget problem —and revenues continue to deteriorate —the administration likely will not implement the full passthrough to current CalWORKs families as part of the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Center for Excellence $750,000 ongoing beginning in 2022 ‑23. Emergency Response Augmentation $50 million one ‑time in 2021 ‑22 and again in 2022 ‑23, expendable for four years (through June 30, 2026 for the later allocation).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - As previously mentioned, the Governor ’s budget increases the annual cost per slot estimate for CCTR slots awarded in 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 by 17  percent (from about $22,470 to $26,380). However, the Governor ’s budget only slightly increases the annual cost for slots awarded and implemented between 2024 ‑25 to 2026 ‑27 by 3  percent (from about $22,470 to $23,150).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Figure 2 Status of Administration ’s Proposed FEM Final Rule Implementation Program Component Description of Proposed Policy Change Budget Action Status of child support order when parent is incarcerated Suspend child support orders when parent required to make payment is incarcerated or involuntarily institutionalized for more than 90 consecutive days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/6