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

Mar 3, 2026 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2027 are based on the LAO Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI ‑U) projection. The 2027 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

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

Feb 13, 2025 - The federal COLA is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). In years that the CPI-W is negative (as was the case in 2010, 2011, and 2016), the federal government does not decrease SSI grants, but instead holds them flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 8, 2024 - The federal COLA is based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). In years that the CPI-W is negative (as was the case in 2010, 2011, and 2016), the federal government does not decrease SSI grants, but instead holds them flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2023-24 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 24, 2023 - Whole grant COLAs worked by applying the California Necessity Index (CNI) to the total SSI/SSP grant. If the federal SSI COLA was not enough to increase total SSI/SSP grants to CNI-adjusted levels, then the SSP portion of the grant was increased by the remaining amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4707

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

Feb 2, 2022 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24 are based on Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers projections. The 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2022 and fall 2023, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4514

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2024 are based on the LAO Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers projection. The 2024 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Stakeholders also continue to raise that the proposed administrative portion of the rates across tiers is too low for short-term residential therapeutic programs and foster family agencies, and that all rate components should receive an annual California Necessity Index cost-o f-living adjustment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - Under current state law, the income eligibility threshold for CalWORKs (also known as the Minimum Basic Standards for Adequate Care, or MBSAC) increases each year in proportion to the California Necessities Index (a measure of price inflation for basic goods such as food and clothing).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340