The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Based on the state ’s most recently measured payment error rate of 11  percent, the state would have a 15  percent share of CalFresh benefit costs, resulting in about $2  billion in new annual costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The 2024-25 spending plan eliminated t wo similar fees for higher-income families with children served by regional centers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Roll out of new rates anticipated to begin July 1, 2027, subject to appropriation. BH ‑CONNECT: a CFT Meetings for FM Cases Implementation began January 1, 2025. Governor ’s budget includes $16.7 million in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Mar 7, 2025 - Over the past 45 days, the JLBC has reviewed the requested allocation alongside the most current project documentation, gathering some of the information shared in this post. This post, however, does not raise any concerns with the requested $10.4  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

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 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - New Spending for IHSS Collective Bargaining. The 2025-26 spending plan also included an additional $3.3  million General Fund for the Department of Human Resources to support IHSS collective bargaining and its potential transition to state level collective bargaining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In response to this elimination, a new county IHSS MOE was  established in July 2017 —referred  to as the 2017 IHSS MOE. Under the new 2017 IHSS MOE, the counties ’ share of IHSS costs were reset to roughly reflect the counties ’ share of estimated 2017 ‑18 IHSS costs based on historical county cost ‑sharing ratios (35  percent of the nonfederal share of IHSS service costs and  30  percent of the nonfederal share of IHSS administrative costs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - The statewide launch of this new system is planned for October 2026. Prior to the new system coming online, counties cannot claim Title IV ‑E funds for prevention services because the state ’s legacy child welfare data system does not meet federal requirements around individual ‑level prevention services tracking and outcomes reporting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Apr 29, 2025 - If the PDL process were pilot-tested based on the first and second POC rounds, the Legislature would have time t o evaluate the new PDL process as it is refined by the administration based on actual experience with GenAI POCs and subsequent contracts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The administration currently anticipates that, beginning in May 2024, EBT cards will be issued with chip and tap-to-pay technologies, which provide improved fraud protection over magnetic stripe t echnology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/2