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

Mar 3, 2026 - Figure  4 shows how 2024-25 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels compare to 2025-26 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels and the administration ’s estimates of the 2026-27 federal SSI grant increase. The projected increases to maximum SSI/SSP grant levels in 2026-27 are entirely due to the estimated federal SSI COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - Figure  2 shows that the enacted budget ’s reductions vary by program. In some cases, such as the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program, budget reductions effectively zero out funding for a previously authorized initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Figure  3 shows how 2023-24 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels compare to 2024-25 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels and the administration ’s estimates of the 2025-26 federal SSI grant increase. The projected increases to maximum SSI/SSP grant levels in 2025-26 are entirely due to the estimated federal SSI COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure  2 shows CalFresh/ CFAP caseload increased over the last five years. CalFresh/CFAP caseload (as of November 2024) increased 60  percent since the beginning of 2019-20, although annual rates of growth have varied from year to year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - This figure shows no abrupt increase in early 2021. Furthermore, it  shows: Growth in 2019. A period of decline from late 2019 through early 2020. Stagnation through much of 2020, then a decline at the end of the year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The most recent expenditure data show that between October 2022 and September 2023, roughly $350,000 was expended on program services compared to the roughly $13  million allocated for services and $1.5  million allocated for administration in the 2022-23 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/4

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure  4 shows how CalWORKs caseload has changed since 2019-20. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, CalWORKs caseload began what was a historically anomalous decrease given high unemployment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Budget Overview and Assessment: Caseload, Cost Per Hour, and Hours Per Case Update Caseloads Are Growing at an Increasing Rate … Figure  1 shows the growth rate and key policy changes in IHSS since 2014-15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Figure  1 shows how these proposals are distributed by program area. (Appendix 3, also provides a list of these proposals.) As the figure shows, most of the discretionary increases are to finance some capital outlay projects with cash instead of lease revenue bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662