The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Overall, counties are required hold in-person orientations within 30 days of the date in which the public health order is lifted (counties and IHSS Public Authorities may request a 15-day extension if the p ublic health conditions caused staffing or facility challenges).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/5

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - Create Adult Family Homes pilot that places older adults with a family. 9 Alzheimer ’s Day Care and Resource Center. Provide dementia ‑capable services at licensed Adult Day and Adult Day Health centers. 5 Conditionally Approved HCBS Spending Plan Initiatives Total Funds a HCBS Infrastructure and Support Access to Technology for Seniors and Persons With Disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Some counties are taking the approach of trying to hold off on using some of their state block grant dollars until they can begin drawing down Title IV ‑E matching funds. Other counties report having spent nearly all their state block grant dollars already —well in advance of being able to use these one ‑time state resources as the required local match to receive federal reimbursement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 budget package included $92.5  million General Fund one time (expendable over three years) to augment the program. Counties and tribes are not required to provide matching funds to receive these funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Participating counties will be required to provide local matching funds equal to half of the state funding amount received. Budget language specifies DSS will develop the specific allocation methodology and procedures for data collection and reporting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Recently, the federal government notified California that its initial EVV plan for IHSS did not comply with the requirement to electronically capture a non-live-in IHSS provider ’s location at the start and end of every work day.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/4

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - According to the most recent data we have seen (from July 2023), median resource family approval (RFA) times —including for emergency placements with relatives —continue to exceed 100 days. This exceeds the target time frame of approval within 90 days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Additionally, trailer bill language (SB  119) suspends the county matching requirement that was required with some prior rounds of funding for the program. One-Time Funding for Foster Family Agencies ($23  Million General Fund, $31.5  Million Total Funds).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - These initial two appropriations required a dollar-for-dollar match from local recipients, while the two $92.5  million augmentations appropriated in 2021-22 and 2022-23 waive the match requirement. Proposed budget language also would extend expenditure authority and the match waiver period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855