The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan provides $13.3  million one-time total funds ($5.1  million General Fund) to continue planning the new system, called LOIS. The spending plan also includes supplemental report language directing the department to submit quarterly progress updates to the Legislature on activities and expenditures related to LOIS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - In 2022 ‑23, about 5.1  million Californians received a total of $14.5  billion in CalFresh benefits, all of it federally funded, for an average monthly benefit of about $185 per recipient. (This average monthly benefit does not include the emergency allotments provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which averaged about $99 per person.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The spending plan includes $5.1  million General Fund ongoing to support temporary manager contracts for adult and senior care facilities. DSS assigns temporary managers to residential facilities when it is necessary to temporarily suspend (or permanently revoke) a license for the welfare and safety of the residents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

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