The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - What role do state policy decisions about eligibility processes play in affecting the complexity of operations and increasing or reducing the error rate in each program? Are there changes in state policy the state could consider that would reduce errors?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 3, 2021 - This runs contrary to both the Governor ’s budget (which assumes a fairly rapid rate of caseload growth from 2020 t hrough 202 2) a nd the historic relationship between caseload and economic data (which suggests caseload should increase following increased unemployment).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Also, HCD currently plays a key role in the review and implementation of AHSC, so it already has “in house ” knowledge of the program. Further, the intent is that this knowledge and program capacity will be transmitted to HDFC through the proposed position transfers from HCD  to HDFC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - This dynamic is at play in the 2026-27 Governor ’s Budget , which newly identifies $270  million in prior-year unspent TANF funds. Before accounting for other changes in spending levels, this unspent TANF funding results in a downward swing in General Fund dollars in CalWORKs in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

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

Mar 3, 2026 - DSS has recently compared maximum grant amounts for individuals and couples to county-level fair market rents (FMR). Specifically, at the county level, DSS compares the maximum SSI/SSP grant amount for individuals to the FMR of an efficiency unit (an apartment unit with no separately enclosed bedroom, similar to a studio apartment) and the maximum SSI/SSP grant amount for couples to the FMR of a one-bedroom unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Funding to Implement Legislation Around Safe Use of Outdoor Play Spaces. The spending plan includes around $150,000 General Fund ongoing to provide CCL with resources to implement statutory changes mandated by Chapter  916 of 2022 (AB  2827, Quirk-Silva).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - A new requirement for RCs to have an appeals procedure for disputes that includes options for an informal meeting, mediation, and a fair hearing. Budget-related legislation requires DDS (with input from stakeholder groups) to create and distribute standard appeals process packets to the RCs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Extreme speeding and other risky driving behaviors likely have played significant roles in the trend in motor vehicle deaths. These trends present major challenges for the Legislature to tackle through policies and programs related to drugs, alcohol, and traffic safety.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - Supervised Independent Living Placement (SILP) Housing Supplement Types of services provided: The supplement is intended to provide additional housing funds, in line with federal Fair Market Rents, for foster youth placed in SILPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Changing demographics also played a role in the decreasing number and rate of households with children, as California’s population grew older and the state’s annual birth rate declined. Poverty in California People Living in Poverty Have Incomes Too Low to Afford Basic Needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057