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

Mar 3, 2026 - The SSI/SSP caseload grew at a rate of less than 1  percent each year between 2011-12 and 2014-15. Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to decline slowly at an average rate of 1.7  percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - The SSI/SSP caseload grew at a rate of less than 1  percent each year between 2011-12 and 2014-15. Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to decline slowly at an average rate of 1.8  percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - California ’s most recent payment error rate, for federal fiscal year 2023-24, is about 11  percent. (The comparable national error rate is similarly about 11  percent.) Payment error rates in California and nationally have risen in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 8, 2024 - The SSI/SSP caseload grew at a rate of less than 1  percent each year between 2011-12 and 2014-15. Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to decline slowly at an average rate of 1.7  percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - The spending plan includes $31  million in federal funds for stolen food benefit reimbursements and $12  million in federal funds for county administration and automation related to this theft. Prior to the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, California reimbursed CalFresh recipients whose benefits were stolen with state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/3

The 2023-24 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 24, 2023 - The SSI/SSP caseload grew at a rate of less than 1  percent each year between 2011-12 and 2014-15. Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to slowly decline at an average rate of 1.5  percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4707

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - At May Revision, the placeholder funding amount included to begin automation in preparation for implementing the new rates structure has increased to $14.465  million, up from $12  million at the time of the Governor ’s January proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Implementation Updates Summary Governor ’s Budget Proposal for Child Welfare Reflects Net Decrease. The 2023 ‑24 Governor ’s Budget includes around $920  million General Fund ($9.3  billion total funds) for child welfare programs under the Department of Social Services (DSS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4698

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - In 2023-24, about 5.3  million Californians received a total of $12  billion in CalFresh benefits, all of it federally funded, for an average monthly benefit of about $189 per recipient. The federal government annually adjusts CalFresh benefits in accordance with changes in the cost of food, and in addition to this annual adjustment, made a major upward revision
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Previous law required DDS to assess monthly fees on higher-income families whose minor child received 24-hour out-of-home care services through a regional center. This fee was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1