The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - (Four of the six milestones are now expected to be tested in EUST 2, and the remaining two milestones are expected to be tested in EUST 3.) During the four-week EUST session, participants identified a significant amount of required rework prior to implementation of the three (and several other related) milestones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

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

Feb 21, 2025 - California was recently selected as one of five states to participate in a federal, six-year pilot to test new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program performance metrics focused on long-term employment and family well-being.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Some of these conditions attempt to align the forthcoming May Revision budget proposal (which we discuss later) with the project cost documents o r incorporate additional information that is only available once the primary vendor contract is awarded (such as updated project management and testing plans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - As mentioned above, California was recently selected to participate in a federal TANF pilot project to test alternative performance measures to the WPR (application for the pilot was proposed and agreed upon in the 2024-25 budget package).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Major project milestones for 2025-26 are expected to include the design, build, and testing of numerous system modules related to case plans, aftercare, adoptions, hearin gs, facilities, tracking costs and claiming, and tracking service delivery.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The federal Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 allows up to five states to participate in a six-year pilot program to test alternative outcome metrics (in lieu of the existing work participation rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - A combination of the traditional and agile approaches might develop project scope as modules, but combine the modules into a few discrete releases for implementation to reduce the frequency of user testing and training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - Unintended consequences could include, for example, the recipient family becoming ineligible for CalFresh or other means-tested programs due to the additio nal income received from the child support payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

The 2016-17 Budget: Evaluating FI$Cal

Mar 10, 2016 - These activities include engaging departments, converting data from current technology systems to FI$Cal, training end users, and testing the system. Pre –Wave was designed to serve as a pilot to test these procedures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3386

The 2018-19 Budget: Evaluating FI$Cal

Mar 2, 2018 - According to the SPR, the Integrated Solution allows additional time for testing and validating the FI$Cal system using reports produced by SCO ’s legacy systems before SCO fully transitions. SCO to Generate CAFR Using FI$Cal and Later Decommission Legacy Systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3768