The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Moreover, with a share of cost, counties have an incentive to control program costs in areas over which they have more control (like administration). To achieve these benefits, we believe realignments need to follow certain core principles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - This growth assumption is generally in line with historical trends. The spending plan assumes that state-operated residential and community facilities will serve 302 individuals in 2025-26, the same number served in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - This growth assumption is roughly in line with pre-pandemic trends (the pandemic produced a seemingly temporary decrease in new entrants to DDS). The spending plan assumes that state-operated residential and community facilities will serve 302 individuals in 2024-25, the same number served in 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/1

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - …But Larger Budget Problem Likely at May Revision, With Proposed Future Spending Likely Unaffordable. However, in The 2023‑24 Budget: Multiyear Assessment , our office projects the budget problem to increase at May Revision by about $7 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - This growth assumption is roughly in line with pre-pandemic trends (the pandemic caused a likely temporary decrease in new entrants to DDS). The spending plan assumes that state-operated residential and community facilities will serve 322 individuals in 2022-23, the same as in 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Additionally, the spending plan eliminated the statutory language that both instituted the 7  percent reduction in IHSS service hours and linked the IHSS service hour restoration to the 2016 MCO tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/4

The 2021-22 Budget: Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Broadband Infrastructure

May 24, 2021 - The Legislature ’s ability to assess the proposal is further constrained by the abbreviated time line of the May Revision process, which makes the lack of information about the proposal even more challenging.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4440

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

Mar 5, 2026 - Those impacts are also reflected in this line, resulting in minor overlap. CFAP = California Food Assistance Program; ABAWD = able ‑bodied adult without dependents; and SUAS = State Utility Assistance Subsidy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Based on each  of  our investigations into these caseload dynamics, we have independently decided to assume caseload would resume growing in line with historic trends beginning around September 2021, when federal enhancements to unemployment insurance expired.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - Given the variety of General Fund solutions already passed as part of the 2024 ‑25 budget process, as well as the myriad currently under consideration at May Revision, it is quite likely the additional funding could be prioritized by the Legislature for other purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906