The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The state funding is provided through Proposition 98 and non ‑Proposition 98 General Fund. c TEFAP is 100 percent federally funded. Emergency Food for Families funding is 100 percent state tax revenue collections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Other notable features of CDFA ’s 2025-26 budget include: Augmentations From Climate Bond. The spending plan includes $169  million for CDFA from Proposition  4, which we discuss in more detail in a separate budget and policy post — The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Under this assumption, the Governor ’s January budget makes a corresponding General Fund reduction to 2025-26 to account for the expected federal reimbursement. As a result, SSI/SSP costs increase from 2025-26 to 2026-27 as the Governors 2026-27 budget does not include a technical downward adjustment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - The Governor ’s budget revises downward projected realignment revenue growth in 2025-26. This means that less realignment revenue is expected to be allocated to the Child Poverty and Family Supplemental Subaccount than previously expected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Bringing Families Home Augmentations $92.5 million one ‑time in 2021 ‑22 and again in 2022 ‑23, with $40 million shifted to 2025 ‑26 and $40 million shifted to 2026 ‑27 as part of 2024 ‑25 budget actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - The 2026 ‑27 budget projects the average monthly number of IHSS hours per case to increase from 125.1 hours in 2025 ‑26 to 127 hours in 2026 ‑27. We  will discuss the growth in IHSS hours per case in a later section of this brief.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - (The most recent reevaluation of the IHSS methodology was for 2025 ‑26. We note however, that although the reevaluations were conducted, neither the Governor ’s May Revision nor the 2025 ‑26 spending plan adopted any associated administrative changes identified in the DSS reassessment report.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5148

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - This proposal was initially estimated to save $688  million General Fund in 2025-26. (The administration later revised the estimated savings to be several hundred million dollars less in 2025-26.) This proposal was ultimately not adopted as part of the final 2025-26 budget package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - These changes (described further below) result in net savings of about $21  million total funds in 2025-26 and about $32  million total funds in 2026-27 and ongoing. Of these savings, the spending plan reinvests about $4.6  million in 2025-26 and $14  million in 2025-26 and ongoing into the CalWORKs single allocation, resulting in General Fund savings of about $16  million in 2025-26 and $18  million in 2026-27 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2