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

Feb 21, 2025 - However, pilot outcome measures have not been officially proposed or selected. Questions for the administration on this topic could include: Has the administration had further conversations with the federal government or stakeholders on the selection of pilot outcome measures or the associated benchmarks and targets?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - Instead, local CCL offices are focusing on providing technical assistance and guidance to licensees to help them respond to COVID-19, in coordination with public health officials. CCL continues to respond to complaints.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/6

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Code specifies may not exceed 125  percent of the official federal poverty line). Prior to this change, the maximum income for eligible beneficiaries under California statute was pegged to the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/6

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Under prior law, county officials were able to identify and begin collecting for any overpayments they discover, no matter how far in the past they were made. The spending plan restricts the time window for identifying overpayments to two years from the date the overpayment was made, and cl assifies all overpayments issued during the COVID-19 pandemic as being the result of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/2

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - It is important to note that the  year-over-year net reduction in IHSS General Fund expenditures masks a number of cost increases, savings, and cost shifts. Below, we discuss some of the main components of the Governor ’s budget for IHSS and note any issues with them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/2

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - This report examines disproportionalities and disparities across California’s child welfare system in terms of income and race/ethnicity. The report provides background on the child welfare system, describes child welfare system disproportionalities and disparities, and lays out potential drivers of these inequities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Proposal to Strengthen Information Security

Feb 28, 2017 - (The audit program was previously piloted before it was officially established in 2016.) Given limited resources, CDT targets its audits to a select group of departments. Conducted One-Time Security “Maturity ” Assessment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3594

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - We identify other staff training ‑related findings from our research under the “IS/IT Infrastructure and Staffing ” topic in the next section, but found the request for official certification of compliance knowledge from CDT to be noteworthy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

Sequestering Savings From the Closure of Developmental Centers

Jan 31, 2018 - Officials in New Jersey —which , like California provides services essentially as an entitlement —indicated to us that New Jersey does not go through the annual exercise of calculating net operational savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3735

The 2018-19 Budget: Evaluating FI$Cal

Mar 2, 2018 - During this interim phase, SCO ’s legacy systems will continue to serve as the state ’s official accounting record. Even while SCO ’s legacy system is the accounting record, the FI$Cal system will have access to all of the necessary data and functionality to produce the CAFR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3768