The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Each year, this program allocates $11  million General Fund in grants to select RCs and community-based organizations for projects focused on reducing disparities in service access and spending. The spending plan provides an additional $11  million one-time General Fund to augment this program in 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget assumes reductions to CDFA ’s budget of $11  million ($9.8  million General Fund) authorized by Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the budget act. This includes $8.2  million ($7  million General Fund) in efficiency reductions and $2.8  million General Fund in vacant position reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Bonus Pay for Bilingual Service Provider Staff. The spending plan provides $2.2  million General Fund in 2021 ‑22, $4.3  million General Fund in 2022 ‑23, and $6.5  million General Fund in 2023 ‑24 and ongoing to support wage bonuses for DSPs who are bilingual —including in American Sign Language —and can support the estimated 90,000 consumers who speak a primary language other than English.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/1

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The spending plan also approves $5  million one-time General Fund in 2024-25 for new GI pilot programs prioritizing aging Californians. CDSS will use the $5  million to provide grants to entities serving lower-income Californians 60 years of age or older.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2021-22 Budget: Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Broadband Infrastructure

May 24, 2021 - Signed into law on March  11, 2021, ARP allocated $195.3  billion to a Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. States can use their allocation from this fund for a very broad set of uses at their discretion, which is stated to include, for example, investment in broadband infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4440

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - California ’s most recent payment error rate, for federal fiscal year 2023-24, is about 11  percent. (The comparable national error rate is similarly about 11  percent.) Payment error rates in California and nationally have risen in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

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

Jan 13, 2025 - These solutions yielded General Fund savings of $11  billion through 2025 ‑26. The Governor ’s budget reduces this amount by $1.3  billion through 2025 ‑26. The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 3, 2021 - Budget Overview The Governor ’s budget proposes a CalWORKs funding level of about $7. 2  b illion (all fund sources) in 2021 ‑22, a $ 729  m illion ( 11  p ercent) increase over the revised 2020 ‑ 21 l evel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

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 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - As shown in Figure  5, the Governor proposes allocating nearly $10  billion of this total to pay down deferred payments from previous years, $5  billion (including $2.1  billion ongoing) for high-poverty schools and districts, nearly $1.4  billion for community colleges, and the remainder (roughly $6  billion) for other K-12 spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432