The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - Additionally, states are given until March  31, 2024 to fully expend the required amount of funding on HCBS enhancements. After March  31, 2024, if it is decided that the program enhancements should continue, California would need to provide funding from an alternative state or local fund source to  do  so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Developmental Services (DDS) May Revision Budget Proposal

May 24, 2021 - (While the higher HCBS matching rate can only be claimed on state HCBS spending between April 1, 2021 through March  31, 2022, states can use the additional funds generated through March  31, 2024.) The ARP Act stipulated that funding could not supplant state funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4438

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - The ARP Act increases the federal government ’s share of Medicaid-funded HCBS by 10  percentage points during a “program improvement period ” of April 1, 2021 through March  31, 2022. To qualify for this enhanced federal funding, states must “expand, enhance, or strengthen ” their HCBS services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan eliminates the Skilled Nursing Facility Workforce and Quality Incentive Program (SNF WQIP) as of December 31, 2025. The SNF WQIP provides performance-based directed payments to facilities that satisfied metrics in quality of care, equity in healthcare outcomes, and workforce investments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Specifically, between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, the asset limits were increased to $130,000 for individuals and $195,000 for couples (with an additional $65,000 allowable for each additional household member), and were fully eliminated effect ive January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - This disenrollment represents a 4  percentage ‑point reduction in the share of California residents who participate in Medi ‑Cal (from 35  percent to 31  percent). …But Caseload Reductions Yield Relatively Limited State Savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The law also specifies that for a COVID-19-related hardship that occurs later —between September 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021 —tenants must pay at least 25  percent of their rent due to avoid eviction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - The spending plan provides $165  million General Fund ($340  million total funds) to implement a new nursing facility financing methodology effective January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026. The new methodology is intended to improve quality of care and increase funding for the nursing facility workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s Major May Revision Behavioral Health Proposals

May 24, 2021 - The Governor ’s May Revision includes $83  million in Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund (CFRF) monies (federal funding to the state to use flexibly from the American Rescue Plan Act) for 2021 ‑22, $107  million CFRF in 2022 ‑23, $156  million ($125  million General Fund and $31  million other federal funds) in 2023 ‑24, $180  million ($144  million General Fund and $36  million
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4439

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The funds will be transferred soon, but the state has until December 31, 2024 to use the funds. The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently released detailed guidance with more detail on how these funds can be used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432