The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - Figure  3 is a sample comparison provided by CDT of State Data Center and private vendor rates for three IT  services. This comparison appears to suggest that at least some of CDT ’s State Data Center rates are not competitively priced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - Second, the estimate assumes Cal-CSIC will provide on-site incident response to any LEA, if requested. Third, the estimate assumes Cal-CSIC will establish data sharing agreements and software licensing arrangements with each LEA to integr ate at least some LEA data into future automated solutions administered by Cal-CSIC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2021-22 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 8, 2021 - Provides project consulting and management services for certain IT projects. Office of Technology Services Manages and operates the State Data Center to provide shared infrastructure, platforms, software, storage, and other solutions for (among others) state government entities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4356

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - Federal Government Required to Provide Annual Cost-of-Living (COLA) Adjustment to SSI Grants … The federal government is required to provide an annual COLA each January to the SSI portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - By comparison, no one racial/ethnic group made up the majority of all California families, although Hispanic was the single largest racial/ethnic group among all California families at about 43  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Furthermore, CDT could consider providing more varied recommendations on hardware, software, and tools with different levels of service and prices to accommodate the wide range of nonreporting entity budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - IT Project-Specific Work Products We do not provide in-depth analysis of any individual budget request in this post, but we have covered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) BIS Migration to S/4 HANA project in a previous publication The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation—Migration of Business Information System to Updated Software Platform(2/16/2023) .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Provides Additional Funding for Local Child Support Agencies (LCSAs). The spending plan provides an additional $20.1  million General Fund ($59.1  million total funds) for LCSA administration costs. The funding would be distributed to about 30 LCSAs that were identified to have staffing levels below the department ’s staffing target (185.4 cases per full-time equivalent position statewide).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/6

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - In September 2024, caseload was about 355,000 households (by comparison, caseload was about 364,000 immediately preceding the COVID-19 pandemic). LAO Assessment Caseload Estimate Appears Reasonable. The administration estimates an average monthly CalWORKs caseload of about 362,000 households in 2025-26 —this represents a roughly 1  percent increase compared to their most recent estimate for 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Primary Cost Driver: Average IHSS Hours Per Case The next main cost driver in IHSS is the average number of hours provided per case. As the number of hours of service provided to IHSS recipients increases, so does the overall cost of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166