The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - This level of rework highlighted the need for the project to incor porate user feedback earlier and more frequently in milestone design and development, and to plan milestones based on analysis of business processes and requirements across child welfare service areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

Feb 21, 2025 - How would the administration recommend the Legislature prioritize the various policy options highlighted in the state ’s pilot application and in the January 2025 report from CDSS (especially given the budget constraints mentioned above)?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Grant amounts are adjusted based on AU size —larger AUs are eligible to receive a larger grant amount —to account for the increased financial needs of larger families. As of October 2021 (when the most recent analysis was conducted), about 40  percent of CalWORKs cases included everyone in the family (and thus the AU size and the family size were the same).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

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

Feb 11, 2022 - Grant amounts are adjusted based on AU size —larger AUs are eligible to receive a larger grant amount —to account for the increased financial needs of larger families. In  about 35  percent of CalWORKs cases, everyone in the family is eligible for CalWORKs and therefore the AU size and the family size are the same.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Grant amounts are adjusted based on AU   size —larger  AUs are eligible to receive a larger grant   amount —to  account for the increased financial needs of larger families. As of December 2023, about 40  percent of CalWORKs cases included everyone in the family, making the AU size and the family size the same.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - The spending plan provides $10  million one time for a pilot program to test a method for measuring and reporting consumer outcomes and service provider quality improvements. Direct Service Professional (DSP) Training and Certification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/1

The 2024-25 Budget: CalWORKs

Mar 4, 2024 - Up to five states selected for a new federal pilot will test alternative performance measures to the WPR requirements. Participating states will not be required to meet the WPR requirements for the duration of the six‑year pilot.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Considerations and Opportunities for Legislature In this section, we highlight some considerations for the Legislature alongside opportunities to provide additional direction and guidance to the administration and support for counties to help ensure implementation of child welfare prevention services can continue in a manner that (1)  allows the state to maximize federal funding
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The federal Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 allows up to five states to participate in a six-year pilot program to test alternative outcome metrics (in lieu of the existing work participation rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2022-23 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 2, 2022 - In order to qualify for IHSS, a recipient must be aged, blind, or disabled and in most cases have income below the level necessary to qualify for the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment cash assistance program (for example, about $1,040 a month for an aged and/or disabled ind ividual living independently in 2021 ‑22).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4512