The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Bringing Families Home Augmentations $92.5 million one ‑time in 2021 ‑22 and again in 2022 ‑23, with $40 million shifted to 2025 ‑26 and $40 million shifted to 2026 ‑27 as part of 2024 ‑25 budget actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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

Mar 3, 2026 - FMR represents the 40 th percentile of rent plus utility costs for a rental unit that meets certain health and safety standards. FMR Growth Outpaces Grant Level Growth. Between 2013-14 and 2025-26, FMRs have grown significantly faster than SSI/SSP grant levels in most areas of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Roughly 40  percent of the growth is due to cost per hour growth (including the minimum wage increasing from $13  to $16.90, and locally negotiated wage and benefit increases above  the  minimum wage).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - For example, according to the state plan, Nurse ‑Family Partnership currently is operated (primarily by county public health departments) in 22 counties, and specially trained Master ’s level therapists offer Parent ‑Child Interaction Therapy in 40 cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

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

Mar 6, 2026 - Such an approach, though, would work at cross ‑purposes with the state ’s policy goals of (1)  reducing the number of places and times a developer must apply and (2)  no longer potentially having scenarios in which a project is approved by one state entity but rejected by another.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Based on the state ’s most recently measured payment error rate of 11  percent, the state would have a 15  percent share of CalFresh benefit costs, resulting in about $2  billion in new annual costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126