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

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 - About 20  percent of CalWORKs heads of household were Black, compared to about 5  percent of all heads of  household. Some Groups Made up Disproportionate Shares of CalWORKs Participants Compared to Californians in Poverty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As a result, in 2019 ‑20, the 2017 MOE was eliminated and replaced with the current IHSS MOE structure —referred to as the 2019 IHSS MOE. As seen in Figure  7 , the 2019 IHSS MOE reduced the base county costs in 2019 ‑20 to roughly $1.6  billion, decreasing IHSS county costs by roughly $300  million relative to 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package includes up to $20  million for DOF to enter into one or more new contracts to implement operational improvements that allow the state to reduce state operations expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Figure   5 illustrates a theoretical community pathway, compared to a traditional child welfare agency pathway. DSS will provide additional guidance for counties around the specific requirements of implementing a community pathway.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) generally are limited to three months of CalFresh assistance in a three-year period unless they work or participate in qualifying activities for at least 20 hours per week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

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

Feb 22, 2022 - DSS issued guidance to counties about the availability of the 2021 ‑22 non ‑competitive allocations for all 58 counties (and a tribal set aside) in mid ‑February; county welfare departments will indicate whether they accept their allocations by the end of March.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - As part of its deliberations, the Legislature may wish to ask the administration to report on its plans for the $20  million made available to support county implementation of work requirements in CalFresh as part of the 2025 ‑26 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149