The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Broadly, the intention of the project is to use Medi-Cal funding to enhance community-based behavioral health care services to support individuals f acing significant behavioral health challenges. Among other aims, the project seeks to deliver early interventions to reach children and families to help prevent entry into or deepening involvement with the child welfare system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2024-25 Budget: IS and IT Project Proposal Tables

Feb 9, 2024 - However, this request also includes funding for CDT project number 2100 ‑014 ‑ ABC ’s proposed eRecords IT project. f Difference in total funds amount due to rounding. IT = information technology; CDT = California Department of Technology; TF = total funds; GF = General Fund; OF = other funds; EDD  =  Employment  Development Department; CalSTRS = State Teachers ’ Retirement
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4836

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - This report is the first of a three-part series focused on trends in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Each part of the series focuses on an area of the program, beginning with this report on participant characteristics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The state could choose to pass through a greater amount of payments (up to the full amount of the child support payment); however, the federal government would require the state to backfill the amount of the pass-through payment that would have otherwise gone to reimburse the f ederal share of CalWORKs recoupment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/6

The 2021-22 Budget: California State Payroll System IT Project

Feb 2, 2021 - We expect CDT approval of the proposed CSPS IT project through Stage 2 o f the PAL process in the next couple of months. Recommendations Withhold Action on Budget Proposals Until CDT Approves Stage 2 Alternatives Analysis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4339

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Stakeholders also continue to raise that the proposed administrative portion of the rates across tiers is too low for short-term residential therapeutic programs and foster family agencies, and that all rate components should receive an annual California Necessity Index cost-o f-living adjustment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - For this report, we focus on the amendments made to Section 11549.3 contained in paragraph (f) that are specific to nonreporting  entities. A B  2135 . Paragraph (f) was added to Government Code Section 11549.3 to require every state agency as defined in Government Code Section 11000 not subject to Section 11549.3(b) (that is, nonreporting entities) to implement
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - As a result, in April 2023, the enhanced rate f or most services dropped from 6.2  percentage points to 5  percentage points, then to 2.5  percentage points in July 2023 and 1.5  percentage points in October 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - (While the Legislature approved resources f or DCSS to conduct an uncollectability study, it did not approve DCSS ’ January request to conduct a study on the appropriateness of the K-Factor in the child support guideline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/5

The 2022-23 Budget: California Food Assistance Program

Feb 11, 2022 - Such individuals are often hesitant to enroll in benefit programs for fear that their information may be shared with federal law enforcement or that their participation may negatively affect any f uture effort to secure citizenship.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4532