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 - As seen in Figure  3 , IHSS caseload has grown significantly since 2013. 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).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - In 2013, the Legislature enacted statute requiring DHCS to develop a new methodology for budgeting Medi ‑Cal administrative costs that would take into account significant changes in eligibility processes and much higher enrollment related to implementing the ACA in 2014.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2021-22 Budget: Assessment of CalHEERS Dashboard

Mar 25, 2021 - Implemented beginning in late 2013, CalHEERS continues to be developed to adapt to changes in Medi ‑Cal and Covered California eligibility rules, fix existing system defects, and add new functionalities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4408

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - The system has been under development for more than a decade (with initial approval for the project to develop CWS-CARES provided in 2013). The project is jointly managed by DSS and Office of Technology and Solutions Integration (OTSI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

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

Mar 7, 2025 - An initial effort —the 21 st Century (TFC)/MyCalPAYS IT project —started in 2004 and was suspended in 2013. (For more information about the TFC/MyCalPAYS project, please see the appendix to our March  19, 2014 report — The 2014-15 Budget: 21st Century Project Update .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The Home Care Program is a relatively new licensing program, created by legislation in 2013 and implemented beginning in 2016 (prior to this time, home care organizations and aides were not regulated by the state).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

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

The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - In the past, this account funded grant increases of 5  percent in 2013-14 and 2014-15, of 1.43  percent in 2016-17, 5.3  percent in 2021-22, and 11  percent in 2022-23. In addition, this account has funded the repeal of the maximum family grant policy starting in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

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

Mar 5, 2024 - In federal fiscal year 2013 ‑14, California had a failing all families WPR of approximately 30  percent. As mentioned, WINS was implemented in 2014. In the same year, California provided additional funding for subsidized employment, implemented family stabilization (a program intended to assist in-crisis CalWORKs recipients in removing barriers to WTW participation), and began excluding some CalWORKs cases without a work-eligible adult from the state ’s WPR calculations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877