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

Feb 13, 2025 - SSP Grants Were Increased in 2016-17, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24. Since the Great Recession, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

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 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - For example, Chapter 770 of 2022 (AB 2085, Holden) and Chapter 832 of 2022 (SB 1085, Kamlager) focus on clarifying that experiencing poverty is distinct from child maltreatment, and in particular general neglect.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - Many of these unspent TANF funds—also called TANF carry forward—were spent in 2022-23 (about $767 million). As a result, federal funds made up a larger proportion of CalWORKs total funds in 2022-23 than in years prior (almost 50 percent of total funds), as shown in Figure 3. 2024-25 TANF Carry Forward May Reflect Expenditure of Remaining Unspent TANF From COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - The shift from a mix of state and federal funds in 2024-25 to all General Fund in 2025-26 is largely due to the end of a federal policy allowing states to temporarily replace stolen SNAP benefits using federal funds from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 (California has therefore returned to replacing any stolen benefits with state funds, as was its practice before October 2022).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

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

Mar 7, 2025 - As of December 2022, there are 158 civil service state departments —91 are processing departments and 67 are non-processing departments. According to the CSPS IT project, the following number of processing departments are in each classification: 12 micro, 36 small, 36 medium, 5 large, and 3 mega.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Benefit issuances began in March  2022. The pilot was originally scheduled to end in February 2023, subject to available funding. However, in November 2022, the pilot was extended until October 31, 2023 due to remaining allocated funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The 2022-23 budget package included $10  million General Fund ongoing for grants to help preschool programs include more children with exceptional needs. The 2023-24 spending plan delayed the implementation of this program until 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/1

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The most recent expenditure data show that between October 2022 and September 2023, roughly $350,000 was expended on program services compared to the roughly $13  million allocated for services and $1.5  million allocated for administration in the 2022-23 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/4

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Although the survey response rate dipped a bit in 2021 (to 74  percent), the response rates in 2020 and 2022 were very similar to 2019 (all 85 to 86  percent). Consequently, we think that changes in survey nonresponse likely are not driving the overall pattern shown in  Figure  12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945