The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Participants in the self-determination program are provided an individual budget, a fixed amount of money with which to purchase the services of their choosing. Participants then decide how to use the money in their individual budget by developing a spending plan, which identifies the services and items the participant needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Firms earning over 50  percent of their total income from a list of “qualified business activities ” (QBA) are subject to a different apportionment method that includes the location of their sales, payroll, and property.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - California ’s current system of state civil service employment dates back to the November 1934 election, when voters approved Proposition  7, adding what is now Article VII to the State Constitution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - More recently, the state allocated $2  million in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18 to improve awareness and take-up of the California Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides money to low-income workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - For more information on Realignment, please see the box below. For information on the Coordinated Care Initiative, please refer to our previous report title d: The 2013‑14 Budget: Coordinated Care Initiative Update .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - In California, the caseload reduction credit for 2008 was larger than the 2007 credit and was therefore used. b Some CalWORKs cases without a work ‑eligible adult were moved out from the CalWORKs WPR calculation and WINS cases were added to the calculation in FFY 2014 ‑15. c WINS two ‑parent cases were removed from the two ‑parent WPR calculation starting with FFY 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - In addition to restructuring foster care maintenance payments, the 2024-25 statutory changes also added two new foster care programs and corresponding rate components: (1)  Strengths Building and Child and Family Determination Program, and (2)  Immediate Needs Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Feb 11, 2022 - Increased the earned income disregard for applicants (or the amount CalWORKs applicants can earn before further income effects their eligibility for the program) from $90 to $450 per month. (The 2022 ‑23 budget includes $79.5  million General Fund to implement this change starting in March  2023.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 21, 2025 - For further details and analysis, see our prior post . Introduced New Reporting Requirements on Program Outcomes. Beginning October 1, 2024, each state (even those not in the pilot) must report annually to the federal government on various new TANF program outcomes, mostly focused on educational attainment, job entry and retention, and earnings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978