The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Update on Paid Sick Leave Implementation Paid Sick Leave (PSL) Established for IHSS Providers in 2018-19. PSL became available on July 1, 2018 for IHSS providers who worked a certain number of hours within a calendar year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 expands the allowable uses of federal Title IV-E funding to include evidence-based and federally approved services to help prevent children and families from entering (or re-entering) the foster care system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - From 2018 through the first half of 2020, the trend was roughly flat around 500 deaths per quarter. These deaths jumped to 673 in the third quarter of 2020, then to 723 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As part of the 2018-19 Budget Act , the Legislature set a goal to increase CalWORKs grants to 50  percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family that is one person larger than the AU size (to account for CalWORKs households in which the actual family size is larger than the CalWORKs AU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Social Services Immigration and Equity Programs

Mar 15, 2024 - TPS Immigration Services In 2018-19, State Expanded Funding to Prioritize Services for Hard-To-Reach Populations. Since 2018-19, the state has provided an annual allocation of $10  million General Fund to supplement ISF services and specifically support hard-to-reach populations through the TPS immigration services program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The Diaper Bank program received three other one-time appropriations over the last six years —$10  million through the 2018-19 Budget Act , $8  million in 2019-20, and $30  million in 2021-22 (all General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Update on Paid Sick Leave Utilization Paid Sick Leave (PSL) Established for IHSS Providers in 2018-19. PSL became available on July 1, 2018 for IHSS providers who worked a certain number of hours within a calendar year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - In setting the target staffing level, the administration averaged enforcement, management, and support staff levels in place as of 2018. The target also was informed by a 2018 workload study conducted in 15 LCSAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

The 2024-25 Budget: CalWORKs

Mar 4, 2024 - As part of the 2018 ‑19 Budget Act , the Legislature set a goal to increase CalWORKs grants to 50  percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family that is one person larger than the AU size (to account for CalWORKs households in which the actual family size is larger than the CalWORKs AU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Beginning in 2018-19, the state began using a revised funding formula for supporting county administrative activities in the CalWORKs program. Generally speaking, this formula increased or decreased funding gradually as caseload increased or decreased, but did not separately adjust for increases in the cost of doing business.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/2