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

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 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - Federal TANF Work and Family Well-Being Pilot The federal Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) authorized a five-state pilot project to test alternative performance measures to the WPR —largely focused on long-term employment outcomes and family well-being —in the TANF program for six years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

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

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As mentioned above, California was recently selected to participate in a federal TANF pilot project to test alternative performance measures to the WPR (application for the pilot was proposed and agreed upon in the 2024-25 budget package).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - CalFood received multiple one-time augmentations in recent years, including $52  million General Fund in 2023-24 and $112  million General Fund in 2022-23. Includes One-Time Funding for Fruit and Vegetable Pilot and Diaper Distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - Figure 3 SSI/SSP Monthly Maximum Grant Levels a 2023 ‑24 (Actual)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964