The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - CalSAWS was introduced in 2019 and, as of October 2023, all 58 counties use the system. The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - The state has expanded comprehensive, or “full-scope, ” Medi-Cal coverage, including IHSS eligibility, to all income-eligible children (effective May 2016), income eligible adults aged 19-25 (effective January 2020), income eligible older adults aged 50 and over (effective May 2022), and income eligible adults aged 26-49 (effective January 2024) —effectively covering all income-eligible individuals regardless of their immigration status.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - The next two years, 2022-23 and 2023-24, caseloads experienced historically high rates of growth at 6.2  percent and 6  percent, respectively. The Governor ’s 2024-25 budget assumes caseload will grow at a rate that is closer to pre-COVID-19 levels, growing at 4.6  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - Figure 6 CCR Costs: Governor ’s Budget for 2022 ‑23 Compared to 2021 ‑22 Revised Budget (In Thousands)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

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

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  6, FMR takes up a significant portion or exceeds recipient grants in all counties. For an efficiency unit, FMRs are between 63  percent and 258  percent of the maximum SSI/SSP grant for individuals and between 42  percent and 157  percent of the maximum SSI/SSP grant for couples.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The most recent expenditure data show that between October 2022 and September 2023, roughly $350,000 was expended on program services compared to the roughly $13  million allocated for services and $1.5  million allocated for administration in the 2022-23 spending plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/4

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - The shift from a mix of state and federal funds in 2024-25 to all General Fund in 2025-26 is largely due to the end of a federal policy allowing states to temporarily replace stolen SNAP benefits using federal funds from October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 (California has therefore returned to replacing any stolen benefits with state funds, as was its practice before October 2022).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2023-24 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 2, 2023 - …While Costs for the Expansion to those aged 26-49 Assumed to Begin in 2024-25. Although the expansion of IHSS to undocumented individuals aged 26-49 will begin in the 2023-24, the administration does not assume any costs in the IHSS program for this expansion in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4729

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - Overestimates led to a large amount of unspent TANF —$767  million —estimated to be available to reduce state spending in CalWORKs in 2022-23. Similarly, $664  million in unspent TANF funds was estimated to be available in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure   6 , caseload reached its all ‑time high (about 600,000  households) in late 2010 ‑11 following the Great Recession. From early 2011 ‑12 to late 2019 ‑20 (prior to the COVID ‑19 pandemic), caseload mostly declined as the state ’s economy  improved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057