The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 15, 2023 - Issues Many Providers Still Are Not in Compliance With HCBS Final Rule Set to Take Effect in March. Figure   3 shows the share of providers (broken out by service category) who have compliant policies set in place as of December  29,  2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4683

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Expenditure authority for some of the temporary augmentations, such as the Emergency Response increases and components of the complex care needs funding, are set to expire in the current year (June 30, 2026).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - However, as seen in Figure  5 , when we consider IHSS hourly wages separately, we see that the average growth rate of hourly wages has been 5.6  percent annually since  2014. This growth in IHSS hourly wages is in part due to increases to the state minimum wage —from $8  per hour on January 1, 2014 to $16.90 per hour on January  1,  2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Establishes New Requirements for Spending in the Self-Determination Program. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

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

Mar 6, 2026 - As a result, many projects would receive an HDFC award, and thus there would be an increase in calls on the proposed set ‑aside pool. In years of leaner supplies of state subsidies, however, demand for the set ‑aside pool will be much less and a mandatory 50  percent set ‑aside for HDFC projects could be too high.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - (The state is seeking waivers under the tighter rules on a county-by-county basis and has obtained waivers for several counties.) CDSS estimates that there are about 954,800 individuals that fit the expanded ABAWD criteria (compared to about 345,400 individuals who are estimated to meet the prior criteria).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

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

Mar 3, 2026 - Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program Favorable Effects Well ‑supported At least two studies with nonoverlapping samples carried out in usual care or practice settings must achieve a rating of moderate or high on design and execution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Stops for moving violations made by the state ’s seven largest local law enforcement agencies dropped 32  percent in the second quarter of 2020. Unlike the CHP trend, however, stops by local law enforcement did not rebound after this mid ‑2020 dip, with stops remaining at a depressed level through 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081