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

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  5, from 2013-14 through 2020-21, the maximum combined SSI/SSP monthly grant amount for individuals (the bulk of the SSI/SSP caseload) and couples had increased on average by 1.2  percent annually —predominantly due to the provision of federal SSI COLAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - 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). As seen in Figure  4, the IHSS caseload growth rate has since grown at historic rates —reaching a growth rate of 10.3  percent in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - . $21  million General Fund annually remains for the program. Reappropriations. The 2025-26 spending plan also reappropriates funding provided for various child welfare program elements during past budget cycles, such as: $40  million General Fund for Flexible Family Supports for Home-Based Care is reappropriated for encumbrance and expenditure through June 30, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - All county behavioral health plans are required to cover these services for Medi‑Cal‑enrolled youth under the age of 21. Additionally, DHCS is supporting counties to develop their capacity to deliver these services to eligible youth and families who access them as prevention services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - These changes (described further below) result in net savings of about $21  million total funds in 2025-26 and about $32  million total funds in 2026-27 and ongoing. Of these savings, the spending plan reinvests about $4.6  million in 2025-26 and $14  million in 2025-26 and ongoing into the CalWORKs single allocation, resulting in General Fund savings of about $16  million in 2025-26 and $18  million in 2026-27 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - State Employee Compensation Legislature Ratified New Agreements With All 21 Bargaining Units. Chapter 5 of 2025 (AB 102, Gabriel) amended the budget to include Control Section 3.90, which established an expectation that the administration would meet and confer in good faith with all 21 of the state’s bargaining units before July 1, 2025 to achieve budgetary savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The Emergency Food Bank Reserve Program, created in the 2 020-21 Budget Act , provides food banks with food and funding to help prevent hunger during natural or human-made disasters. The 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 Budget Acts each allowed the Department of Finance to replenish funds in the State Emergency Food Bank Reserve as needed and upon request from CDSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - Based on these calculations, SSP grants increased by 23.95  percent on January 1, 2022 (increasing grants by $39 for individuals and $98 for couples); by 10.3  percent on January 1, 2023 (increasing grants by about $21 for individuals and $52 for couples); and by 9.2  percent on January 1, 2024 (increasing grants by about $20 for individuals and $51 for couples).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - For example, in 2020 ‑21 and 2021 ‑22, about $13  million General Fund of annual Bridge voucher funding went unspent. In 2022 ‑23, the amount of unspent Bridge voucher funding increased to about $40  million General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - The system, implemented in July 2021 (after a COVID ‑19 related delay in 2020 ‑21), includes various performance measures, including on engagement, participation, supportive service delivery, and post ‑program outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057