Fiscal Outlook: Developmental Services

Nov 15, 2017 - General Fund Expenditures at DCs Projected to Decline as DCs Close. As DDS consumers transition from the DCs to the community, we project General Fund expenditures for DCs to decline from $350  million in 2017-18 to less than $300  million by 2018-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3717

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - A fourth measure —the percentage of CalWORKs participants with earnings sufficient to receive the maximum benefit from the federal earned income tax credit —was added later. In order to receive incentive funding from the Pay for Performance program, counties would either have to make a minimum level of improvement on a given performance measure or rank in the top 20  percent of counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Proposal to Strengthen Information Security

Feb 28, 2017 - Given the extensive assortment of sensitive data that the state maintains, including Social Security numbers, health records, and income tax information, the state is a prime target for information security attacks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3594

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - The MCO tax is expected to be effective through 2018-19. Update on the Implementation of Federal Labor Regulations That Affect Home Care Workers In February 2016, the state implemented the new federal labor regulations for IHSS providers following a one-year delay due to federal court action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/2

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - Expenditure Proposal by Major Programs Overview of the Human Services Budget Proposal.  The Governor ’s budget proposes expenditures of $12.7  billion from the General Fund for human services programs in  2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - For example, “emergency assistance ” expenditures in Child Welfare Services fit this criterion. Finally, the state may transfer a portion of the TANF block grant funds received each year to certain other federal block grants, such as the Title XX Social Services Block Grant, to be expended according to the rules of the block grant receiving the transfer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/1

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - For  2017 ‑18, the budget proposes nearly $3  billion from the General Fund for the state ’s share of SSI/SSP —an  increase of $55  million (1.9  percent) over estimated  2016 ‑17  expenditures. This increase would bring total program funding to $10.2  billion ($2.9  billion from the General Fund and $7.3  billion federal funds) in  2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/3

The 2016-17 Budget: Child Welfare Services--New System

Feb 25, 2016 - We recommend approval of the Governor ’s proposal to increase OSI expenditure authority by $171,000 to establish one new permanent position, make eight existing positons permanent, and transition 8.5 existing CWS/CMS positions to CWS-NS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3369

The 2016-17 Budget: Child Welfare Services--New System [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2016 -
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3369

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 11, 2016 - In 2011, the state enacted legislation known as 2011 realignment, which dedicated a portion of the state ’s sales tax to counties to administer CWS. The 2016 –17 budget assumes that over $2  billion will be available from realignment revenues for the support of CWS programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3351