The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - The 2024 ‑25 budget package includes certain other actions in other department budgets pertaining to housing and homelessness, as described in the Human Services write ‑up of the Spending Plan. b Because tax credits are not claimed until the housing units are complete, the General Fund impact of new program funding will not be observed for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - Figure 4 13 of 37 CWS ‑CARES V1 Milestones Completed Child Welfare Service Area b
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - SUN Bucks benefits are excluded from this figure and are included in Figure 3. b CFAP benefits are 100 percent General Fund. The Governor ’s Budget estimates an average monthly benefit of $372 per household.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

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

Feb 21, 2025 - Figure 1 California ’s Previous Penalties and Appeals (In Millions) $64 a Reflects most recent correspondence from Administration for Children and Families. b Includes penalty relief provided for “significant progress ” towards WPR target, and the impact of a penalty reduction in any given year on the penalty calculation/amount in following years. c Penalties in dispute as of January 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - However, the service will become mandatory for Medi-Cal managed care plans to provide for certain b eneficiaries beginning no sooner than January 1, 2026 and mandatory for all eligible populations no sooner than January 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Outreach, administration, and automation funding is 50 percent federal and 50 percent General Fund. b CACFP is federally funded through the Food and Nutrition Service. The state funding is provided through Proposition 98 and non ‑Proposition 98 General Fund. c TEFAP is 100 percent federally funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Figure 2 New Permanent Foster Care Rate Structure: Rate Components Vary Across Tiers Overall Profile of Youth Estimated Proportion of Foster Youth a Care and Supervision Funding b,c Strength Building and Maintenance Funding d Immediate Needs Funding e
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Additionally, a state law (Chapter  677 of 2019 [A B  528 , Low]) changed some CURES reporting requirements effective January  1,  2021, but we would not expect this law to have major effects on buprenorphine reporting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2024-25 Budget: IS and IT Project Proposal Tables

Feb 9, 2024 - Figure 2 Governor ’s 2024 ‑25 Budget IT Project Proposals a (In Millions) 7100 ‑222,  7100 ‑236,  7100 ‑237 Proposed (7100 ‑222, 7100 ‑237); Approved  (7100 ‑236) $326.8 Public Works IT System Enhancements 7350 ‑095 IT M &O and File Conversion 2100 ‑014 e Dredge or Fill Permit Application 3940 ‑110 $62.0 a Some proposals may include some funding and/or positions for non ‑IT project
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4836

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Given the potential to conflate poverty and possible neglect, some recent policy bills —namely , Chapter  770 of 2022 (A B  2085 , Holden) and Chapter  832 of 2022 (S B  1085 , Kamlager) —have focused on clarifying that experiencing poverty is distinct from child maltreatment, in particular general neglect.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897