The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - For example, the Summer EBT Program, which is currently planned for implementation in summer 2024, provides summertime food benefits to children in households that qualify for free or reduced-price school meals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2022-23 Budget: California Food Assistance Program

Feb 11, 2022 - We understand part of the administration ’s consideration in targeting older immigrants is the availability of other food assistance programs (such as free and reduced ‑price school meals) to younger populations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4532

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 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - For example, the most recent Women’s Earnings in State Civil Service report identified that the median woman in state service earns about 14 percent less than the median man in state service. The report explains that this pay gap exists primarily because women tend to work in classifications that are lower paid than the classifications that men dominate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - Families may earn non-CalWORKs income of up to $500 a month without affecting their grant, but for each additional dollar they earn above $500 their grant is reduced by 50 cents. In 2019 ‑20. the maximum family grant for a family of three was $785.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - To be eligible, households generally must earn less than 200  percent of the federal poverty level. CalFresh benefits can be used to buy most groceries and some prepared food at participating vendors, which include most grocery and convenience stores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan reflects an additional set of requirements that providers will need to satisfy in order to be eligible to earn the quality incentive portion of rate models beginning in July 2026. Specifically, providers will need to comply with Electronic Visit Verification, federal Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS), and independent audit and fiscal review requirement s.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Counties are free to shift this funding between any of the supported functions, including CalWORKs administration and employment services (prior to 2021 ‑22, child care was also included in the single allocation).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/2