The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - The California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot provides CalFresh recipients in pilot counties with a dolla r-for-dollar benefit match when they purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at select farmers ’ markets and grocery stores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - CalFresh benefits can be used to buy most groceries and some prepared food at participating vendors, which include most grocery and convenience stores. Benefit amounts vary by household and depend on various factors including household size, income, and costs for housing and utilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - 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/4971

The 2022-23 Budget: California Food Assistance Program

Feb 11, 2022 - Second, the federal government manages an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which depo sits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services programs onto cards that can be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4532

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The CalFood program provides funding to a network of food banks statewide to purchase, store, and transport food grown or produced in California. A similar one-time augmentation of $112  million General Fund was made in 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/3