The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs 24 Failed a Due to the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, states could receive the caseload reduction credit from either 2007 or 2008 for WPR calculation from 2008 to 2011.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The 2022-23 spending plan provided $186  million over three years to temporarily fund Older Californian Act programs that are included in statute, but have not been funded since 2008. The Older Californian Act programs include family and caregiver support services, senior volunteer development resources, aging in place services, and other home- and community-based services (HCBS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2024-25 Budget: CalWORKs

Mar 4, 2024 - ESE replaced the original CalWORKs Subsidized Employment Program (which was implemented in 2008) in 2013 and is now the only CalWORKs program providing dedicated subsidized employment funding. Counties may fully or partially subsidize the wages of some CalWORKs recipients for six months to a year —making it less costly for an employer to hire a CalWORKs participant compared to a non ‑CalWORKs participant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - This report examines disproportionalities and disparities across California’s child welfare system in terms of income and race/ethnicity. The report provides background on the child welfare system, describes child welfare system disproportionalities and disparities, and lays out potential drivers of these inequities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2022-23 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 2, 2022 - Increase Grants to Regain Purchasing Power Lost Since 2008 ‑09. During the Great Recession, the state stopped providing annual COLAs. As a result, the value, or purchasing  power, of the maximum SSI/SSP grants eroded over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4514

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 3, 2021 - When the unemployment rate is high —for example, during the Great Recession of 2008 ‑09 (when unemployment peaked at about 12  p ercent) —caseload grows (eventually reaching an all ‑time high of about 587, 000 c ases in 2010 ‑11).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - Between 2005 and 2008 (during the economic expansion which preceded the Great Recession), the take-up rate hovered around 70  percent as both CalWORKs caseload and the number of CalWORKs-eligible families decreased year over year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340