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

Mar 3, 2026 - 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 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - One common challenge with HHS administration budgeting methodologies is that estimated unit costs and other assumptions can become outdated because of inflation or changes in processes or program requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - A majority of state bargaining units must renegotiate new agreements that year, which is a significant amount of work for both CalHR and the unions representing bargaining units. This work could delay the other work CalHR and others need to do to complete the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - State Employee Compensation Legislature Ratified New Agreements With All 21 Bargaining Units. Chapter 5 of 2025 (AB 102, Gabriel) amended the budget to include Control Section 3.90, which established an expectation that the administration would meet and confer in good faith with all 21 of the state’s bargaining units before July 1, 2025 to achieve budgetary savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - The 2024 ‑25 budget package includes certain other actions in other department budgets pertaining to housing and homelessness, as described in the Human Services write ‑up of the Spending Plan. b Because tax credits are not claimed until the housing units are complete, the General Fund impact of new program funding will not be observed for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - As shown in Figure  2, current maximum grant amounts for all assistance unit (AU) sizes in high-cost counties are equivalent to between 43  percent and 47  percent of the federal poverty level for a family one person larger than the AU size, and are equivalent to slightly lower levels for families in lower-cost counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - The state’s 4,500 job classifications are organized into 21 bargaining units. Each bargaining unit is represented by a union in the collective bargaining process. The Governor is represented by CalHR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for CalWORKs

May 29, 2024 - Figure 3 May Revision Estimates 0.3 Percent Grant Increase Low ‑Cost Counties 47 a Assistance unit size is the number of family members who are eligible for CalWORKs. b Share of 2024 federal poverty guideline for a family size that is one person larger than the AU size.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4911

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - In 2023‑24, about 890,000 individuals (in about 350,000 families) participated in CalWORKs, making up over 30 percent of all TANF recipients nationwide (by comparison, California residents made up about 12 percent of the overall United States population in 2023).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Family Size Differs From CalWORKs Assistance Unit (AU) Size. Monthly CalWORKs grant amounts are set according to the size of the AU. The size of the AU is the number of CalWORKs-eligible people in the household.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699