The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - 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

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Figure 1 State Shares of CalFresh Benefit Costs for Different Payment Error Rates Payment Error Rate State Share of Benefit Costs Approximate Annual California Cost
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

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

Mar 3, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program [Publication Details] The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program Format: HTML Description: For 2026-27, the Governor’s budget proposes $3.6 billion from the General Fund for the state’s share of SSI/SSP—an increase of $94 million (2.7 percent) from the Governor’s revised 2025-26 budget estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - The impact on the state budget of higher administrative costs and a potential future benefit share in CalFresh is significant. The value of lost eligibility and benefits to Medi ‑Cal and CalFresh enrollees is larger still.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As described in the following sections, many of these same groups are also overrepresented in CalWORKs (a group is overrepresented in CalWORKs when its share of the CalWORKs caseload is larger than its share of the general population).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Mar 3, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program Summary For 2026-27, the Governor ’s budget proposes $3.6  billion from the General Fund for the state ’s share of SSI/SSP —an increase of $94  million (2.7  percent) from the Governor ’s revised 2025-26 budget estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Additionally, some counties shared concerns that their EBP providers may not have the staffing or resource capacity to take on the complexities of direct Medi ‑Cal billing. Cost of Implementing to Model Fidelity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - The remaining nonfederal share of IHSS costs is covered by the state and counties. Historically, counties paid 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/5009

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The state operations funding is to support staff that will share student eligibility data and provide technical assistance to schools. Other Food Assistance Funding and Programmatic Changes Includes About $2.7  Million for CalFresh and SUN Bucks Workload Changes in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - All data-sharing shall comply with the Information Practices Act of 1977. The spending plan indicates the Legislature ’s intent for this data-sharing to be used to measure point-in-time data and trends in homelessness, housing instability, and utilization of housing services amongst individuals and families in CDSS programs, including CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2