The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Similarly, the Governor ’s budget assumes the annual cost per slot after 2023 ‑24 is about $23,150 (3  percent higher than past estimates), increasing total costs for the slot expansion plan by $8  million annually from 2024 ‑25 to 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCAI  with $60  million General Fund to support the Song ‑Brown Program, intended to increase the number of primary care providers statewide by funding primary care residency training slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - Eliminate Assisted Living Waiver waitlist by increasing waiver slots by 7,000. 255 Services: Enhancing HCBS Capacity and Models of Care Developmental Services Rate Model Implementation. Implement rate models recommended by the 2019 Rate Study. $1,260 b Social Recreation and Camp Services for Regional Center Consumers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As seen in Figure  3 , IHSS caseload has grown significantly since 2013. Despite slower caseload growth between 2016 ‑17 and 2020 ‑21 (the caseload continued to grow during this period, just at a slower than usual rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - As shown in Figure  3, the amount of TANF used to support CalWORKs has changed from year to year. During the COVID-19 pandemic the state significantly overestimated CalWORKs caseload and spending, largely due to unprecedented federal and state policy responses that led to historically unusual enrollment trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

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

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  3, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 0.9  percent in both 2025-26 and 2026-27. In past years, the Department of Social Services (DSS) has noted that a potential driver of this steady caseload decline may be fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Since its inception in 2015, One California, also known as the Immigration Services Funding (ISF) program, has funded non-profit organizations to provide free services to immigrants under three broad categories: (1)  legal services, (2)  education and outreach, and (3)  legal training and technical assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/8

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Eliminate Assisted Living Waiver waitlist by increasing waiver slots by 7,000. 92.1 Laguna Honda Enhanced Transition Services Benefit. Transfer Medicaid ‑funded residents of Laguna Honda Hospital to new care setting. 0.6 Services: Enhancing Home and Community ‑Based Services Capacity and Models of Care Developmental Services Rate Model Implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This is a net increase of $5  million (3  percent) over the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The funding for schools is intended to cover the costs associated with determining eligibility for children that need to apply and verifying eligibility of 3  percent of the approved SUN Bucks applicants, as required by federal program rules.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3