The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget provides $5  million in one-time General Fund for California Volunteers to offer grants to AmeriCorps programs to fund coaches at K-12 schools. This program has received limited-term funding in prior years, including $5  million in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - As shown in Figure  5, the CalWORKs caseload has steadily grown from early in 2021-22, coinciding with the expiration of enhanced federal Unemployment Insurance benefits following the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

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 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The spending plan also approves $5  million one-time General Fund in 2024-25 for new GI pilot programs prioritizing aging Californians. CDSS will use the $5  million to provide grants to entities serving lower-income Californians 60 years of age or older.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - However, as seen in Figure  5 , when we consider IHSS hourly wages separately, we see that the average growth rate of hourly wages has been 5.6  percent annually since  2014. This growth in IHSS hourly wages is in part due to increases to the state minimum wage —from $8  per hour on January 1, 2014 to $16.90 per hour on January  1,  2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Classify each processing department based on its total estimated number of FTEs (including from non-processing departments) into one of five classifications: (1) “micro ” with 25-100 FTEs, (2) “small ” with 101-800 FTEs, (3) “medium ” with 801-8,000 FTEs, (4) “large ” with 8,001-17,000 FTEs, and (5) “mega ” with 17,001 or more FTEs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - A statutory average service coordinator-to-child caseload ratio of 1:40 for children 5 years of age or younger (under prior law, the statutory ratio for children under 3 was 1:62; there was no specific statutory ratio for children ages 3 through 5).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1

The 2021-22 Budget: California State Payroll System IT Project

Feb 2, 2021 - SCO requests $5. 5  m illion ($3. 1  m illion General Fund) and 7 p ositions to complete CDT ’s PAL. SCO plans to release a solicitation for vendors to bid, conduct a procurement process with multiple phases (described below), and select one or more vendors for the final contract award.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4339

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 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - When these overpayments are discovered, they are typically repaid by reducing the family ’s future benefits by 10  percent a month (or 5  percent, if the error was made by county administrators rather than the family itself).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/2