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

Mar 5, 2026 - Additionally, in taking this task on, the administration will be adding to the many competing priorities that are underway. This means that temporary funding may need to be in place until ongoing methodologies can be  established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - CFAP benefits are equal to those provided by CalFresh. In 2024-25, C FAP provided $135  million in food assistance to about 63,000 people, for an average benefit of about $180 per person. Subject to Appropriation, CFAP to Be Expanded to Additional Income-Eligible Noncitizens.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - While the vast majority of IHSS recipients are eligible for Medi ‑Cal and receive IHSS as a Medi ‑Cal benefit, the state also operates the IHSS ‑Residual program, which provides services to individuals not eligible for federally funded Medi ‑Cal benefits, but who meet all other IHSS eligibility criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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 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

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Namely, for any new services added to the plan that are rated as supported or promising, DSS would need to ensure that at least 50  percent of Title IV ‑E dollars are claimed for well ‑supported services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Mar 6, 2026 - A  significant benefit of using 9   percent tax credits for HDFC ‑awarded projects is that the state would have the ability to “stretch out ” its MHP (and other gap funding) among more projects than otherwise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - As part of a special legislative session held in January 2025, the Legislature added Control Section 5.26 to the 2024-25 Budget Act, providing an additional one-time allocation of $10  million to support immigration related services, including removal defense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/8

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 3, 2021 - CalWORKs caseload increased by about 11, 000 c ases ( 3  p ercent) during the first three months of the COVID ‑ 19 r ecession (March through May 202 0) b efore decreasing in subsequent months. As Figure  2 shows, this period of caseload growth was primarily driven not by an increase in cases added, but by a decrease in cases exiting following the temporary suspension of redeterminations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4341

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - 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/4962