The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - In addition to restructuring foster care maintenance payments, the 2024-25 statutory changes also added two new foster care programs and corresponding rate components: (1)  Strengths Building and Child and Family Determination Program, and (2)  Immediate Needs Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Statute specifies which accounts (and therefore programs) should be prioritized for growth in realignment revenues and in what order. For Realignments to Work Well, Several Principles Need to Be Met.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Namely, for any new services added to the plan that are rated as supported or promising, DSS would need to ensure that at least 50  percent of Title IV ‑E dollars are claimed for well ‑supported services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - As part of a special legislative session held in January 2025, the Legislature added Control Section 5.26 to the 2024-25 Budget Act, providing an additional one-time allocation of $10  million to support immigration related services, including removal defense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/8

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

Mar 5, 2026 - Additionally, in taking this task on, the administration will be adding to the many competing priorities that are underway. This means that temporary funding may need to be in place until ongoing methodologies can be  established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

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

Mar 3, 2026 - The state is required to maintain SSP monthly grant levels at or above the nominal levels in place in March  1983 ($156.40 for SSP individual grants and $396.20 for SSP couple grants) in order to receive federal Medicaid funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Providers must satisfy specified metrics in order to receive the 10  percent of the rate model reserved for quality incentive payments. The spending plan reflects an additional set of requirements that providers will need to satisfy in order to be eligible to earn the quality incentive portion of rate models beginning in July 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

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

Feb 8, 2024 - The state is required to maintain SSP monthly grant levels at or above the nominal levels in place in March  1983 ($156.40 for SSP individual grants and $396.20 for SSP couple grants) in order to receive federal Medicaid funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

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

Feb 3, 2021 - As Figure  2 shows, this period of caseload growth was primarily driven not by an increase in cases added, but by a decrease in cases exiting following the temporary suspension of redeterminations. (Generally, when cases added are greater than cases exited, net caseload grows, and vice versa.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The spending plan includes language that clarifies how to structure in-person orientations under a state or local public health order. For example, if a public health order limits the size of gatherings, counties can hold a series of smaller in-person orientations to comply with the public health order.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/5