The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Increases Revenue by Around $300   Million. The Governor ’s budget proposes to change the rules about how taxable profits are determined for financial institutions. The administration estimates this change would increase revenues on an ongoing basis by around $300  million per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 13, 2025 - As shown in Figure  2, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 1.3  percent in 2024-25 and 0.7  percent in 2025-26. The Department of Social Services (DSS) has recently noted that a potential driver of this steady caseload decline may be attributable to fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - Some of the year-over-year changes in CalWORKs General Fund and TANF funds (shown above in Figure  2) are due to these adjustments. Availability of TANF Carry Forward Impacts General Fund in CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

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

Feb 8, 2024 - As shown in Figure  2, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 1.4  percent in 2023-24 and 1.5  percent in 2024-25, which is in line with past caseload trends. The Department of Social Services recently stated that the primary drivers of this steady caseload decline are (1)  overall program attrition from the disabled population and (2)  slower caseload growth due to fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - While the fiscal impact of this reauthorization would be small in the budget window —an estimated $300  million in 2023 ‑ 24 —the effect would be much larger in future years, rising to roughly $2  billion in General Fund savings as early as 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - Under PDL, state entities would begin by (1)  identifying and refining a business problem to be solved by GenAI technology, (2)  using an RFI 2 or comparable procurement method to solicit and select one or more vendors for a POC, and (3)  analyzing the POC results to select one or more vendors for a “minimum viable product ” (or MVP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure  2 , California ’s official individual and family (with children under age 18) poverty rates fluctuated over the last two decades. Official poverty rates are based on federal poverty levels (FPL), which are income thresholds under which a family is considered to be in poverty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Administration Maintains $300   Million General Fund in 2023 ‑24 for Increased Middle ‑Mile Network Costs. Consistent with the legislative goal in S B  189 , the Governor ’s 2023 ‑24 budget includes $300  million General Fund in 2023 ‑24 and $250  million General Fund in 2024 ‑25 for increased costs to build, lease, and purchase the state ’s middle ‑mile network.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - The project ’s transition to its holistic design approach does not delay the expected CWS-CARES V1 completion in October 2026, but does (1)  shift milestones from EUST 2 to EUST 3; (2)  extend EUST 3 from four to six weeks (given the significant number of milestones in the EUST); and (3)  require EUST 4 validation and training activities to occur at the same time, compressing the project time line.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

Mar 7, 2025 - Stage 2 Alternatives Analysis. The project evaluates a number of solutions using market research, and then identifies a recommended solution with a preliminary baseline project cost, schedule, and scope.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011