The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The cost of this lost 6  percent FMAP must then be reimbursed to the federal government. Since 2017, the cost of this lost 6  percent FMAP (also referred to as the CFCO late penalty) has been paid for with the General Fund and has grown over time —totaling $63.2  million in 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/4

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - The value of lost eligibility and benefits to Medi ‑Cal and CalFresh enrollees is larger still. Addressing the structural budget problem will require difficult trade ‑offs. Backfilling lost federal benefits under H.R.  1 would require billions of dollars in additional budget solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - This allowed some Medi-Cal enrollees who otherwise may have lost full-scope Medi-Cal coverage to continue receiving Medi-Cal-related   services —including  IHSS. Additionally, this meant that those who may have lost full-scope Medi-Cal coverage were no longer being placed into the IHSS Residual program (the state funded program that some IHSS recipients are added
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Initially, trust accounts will be established for children who have lost a parent or primary caregiver to the COVID-19 pandemic and for children in long-term foster care. Funds in the accounts may be used for any purpose by the recipients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - The 2019 IHSS MOE was also set to increase annually by (1)  the counties ’ share of costs from locally negotiated wage increases and (2)  an annual adjustment factor of  4  percent. Figure 7
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare Full Implementation Underway CWS ‑CARES Nearly $2 billion provided over life of project, including $180 million in 2026 ‑27 included in Governor ’s budget. Statewide launch of version 1 planned for October 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

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: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2022-23 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 2, 2022 - As  shown in Figure  2 , during the Great Recession, the state incrementally decreased SSP grants for individuals and couples until they reached these minimum levels in June 2011 and November  2009,  respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4514

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - COVID ‑19 support for former NMDs and flexibilities within EFC ‑55 ‑49 Limited ‑term funding to support NMDs and former NMDs who would have aged out or lost eligibility for EFC. Support ended December 31, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558