The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The administration estimates that implementing the Tiered Rate Structure will cost more than $300  million General Fund in 2027-28, $500  million in 2028-29, and $700  million General Fund in 2029-30 (with some potential growth thereafter and ongoing).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Mar 5, 2026 - Additionally, in taking this task on, the administration will be adding to the many competing priorities that are underway. This means that temporary funding may need to be in place until ongoing methodologies can be  established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - When looking specifically at the General Fund, however, there is another structural factor that has also made it so that the above described increases are borne more by the General Fund than they were historically.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Namely, for any new services added to the plan that are rated as supported or promising, DSS would need to ensure that at least 50  percent of Title IV ‑E dollars are claimed for well ‑supported services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - (The nearby box describes why state and national SPM rates decreased during the COVID ‑19 pandemic and increased shortly after, while FPL rates increased and then decreased during and after the pandemic.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

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

Feb 3, 2021 - The available data do not offer a clear picture as to why CalWORKs applications are being denied at historically high rates, nor why CalWORKs exits have increased. However, public health concerns may play some role in either or both of these trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - As part of a special legislative session held in January 2025, the Legislature added Control Section 5.26 to the 2024-25 Budget Act, providing an additional one-time allocation of $10  million to support immigration related services, including removal defense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/8

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - The Governor ’s budget is consistent with the policy goals of the reorganization approved by the Legislature in July  2025, which is to re ‑envision and implement a more integrated and accessible funding system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - The Legislature may wish to ask the administration at budget hearings to provide more information on the impacts of an extended funding freeze on CalWORKs, and other programs that receive TANF funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Community Services and Development

Feb 9, 2023 - The LIHEAP eligibility pool is more restricted relative to CAPP, and the LIHEAP program model requires households to apply individually for assistance (as opposed to the more sweeping CAPP model of providing funds to utility providers to apply directly to customer accounts).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4674