The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs The 2023-24 Budget CalWORKs Summary. In this post, we provide some basic background on the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program followed by an overview and assessment of the Governor ’s CalWORKs budget proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

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

Feb 21, 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 (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/4978

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

Feb 11, 2022 - (The 2022 ‑23 budget includes $79.5  million General Fund to implement this change starting in March  2023.) Used $203  million in federal funding to provide a one ‑time pandemic relief payment of $640 to each CalWORKs family in July 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - (Four of the six milestones are now expected to be tested in EUST 2, and the remaining two milestones are expected to be tested in EUST 3.) During the four-week EUST session, participants identified a significant amount of required rework prior to implementation of the three (and several other related) milestones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

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 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - A combination of the traditional and agile approaches might develop project scope as modules, but combine the modules into a few discrete releases for implementation to reduce the frequency of user testing and training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

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

Mar 3, 2026 - SSP Grants Were Increased in 2016-17, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24.  Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - Unintended consequences could include, for example, the recipient family becoming ineligible for CalFresh or other means-tested programs due to the additio nal income received from the child support payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

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