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

Mar 3, 2026 - Estimates of federal poverty guidelines for 2027 are based on the LAO Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI ‑U) projection. The 2027 federal poverty guidelines will not be finalized until fall 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CDSS currently anticipates it will begin mass card replacement in late February 2025 and that new cards will be distributed via mail over a period of 12 to 16 weeks (with all new cards deployed by June 30, 2025).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This foundation operates the Imagination Library, which mails books free of charge to children under age five. Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - (The federally approved projects allowed participating counties to u se their Title IV-E dollars more flexibly. The projects ended in 2019, and from 2019 until 2021, the federal government provided step-down grants to help counties transition.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - As an alternative, counties were expected to accept mailed-in or facsimile photocopies of the original identification documents. This flexibility was initially expected to expire on Septemb er 30, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/4

The 2022-23 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 2, 2022 - As an alternative, counties may accept mailed ‑in or faxed photocopies of the original identification documentation. End of the state of emergency in California Quality Assurance and Program Integrity Counties may perform home visits for purposes of quality assurance and program integrity remotely using telehealth, including video ‑conferencing and telephone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4512

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Many nonreporting entities used cybersecurity training software offerings to conduct at least annual cybersecurity awareness training and perform mock phishing exercises —that is, e ‑mails or messages sent by internal IS staff to attempt to mislead an entity ’s employees into, for example, clicking a link or downloading a file that contains malware.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Namely, CCR aims to: ( 1)  e nd long ‑term congregate care placements; ( 2)  i ncrease reliance on home ‑based family placements; ( 3)  i mprove access to supportive services regardless of the kind of foster care placement a child is in; and ( 4)  u tilize universal child and family assessments to improve placement, service, and payment rate decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3