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

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Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

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

Mar 3, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program [Publication Details] The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program Format: HTML Description: For 2026-27, the Governor’s budget proposes $3.6 billion from the General Fund for the state’s share of SSI/SSP—an increase of $94 million (2.7 percent) from the Governor’s revised 2025-26 budget estimate.
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The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 3, 2021 - Background The CalWORKs program provides cash grants and job services to low ‑income families. The program is administered locally by counties and overseen by the state Department of Social Services (DSS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

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

Feb 21, 2025 - Additionally, grant sizes generally decrease as family income increases. In 2024-25, the administration estimates the average CalWORKs grant amount to be $1,001 per month across all family sizes and income levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Federal law requires that TANF recipients be “needy, ” but does not set specific income or asset requirements. Therefore, income and asset limits for TANF ‑funded programs vary by state. As of July 2022,  California had one of the highest income limits nationwide and a higher asset limit than 40 other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this brief, we provide background on affordable housing and affordable housing funding programs, describe and analyze the Governor’s budget proposals related to affordable housing funding, and provide recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Because 9   percent tax credits generally deliver more than twice the equity of 4   percent credits, they can be a powerful tool for supporting deeply affordable housing projects (that is, projects targeting people with the lowest income levels).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2022-23 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 2, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program The 2022‑23 Budget Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program Summary. This post summarizes the Governor ’s budget assumptions and proposals related to the SSI/SSP program, including the Governor ’s intent to increase SSP grants in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4514