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California Legislative Women’s Caucus’s 2026 Priority Bills

March 26, 2026 5:30 amMarch 26, 2026 2:59 pm

The California Legislative Women’s Caucus announced its 2026 legislative package, and in doing so, showed us in bold colors what their priorities are. Some of the bills are fine, although probably not necessary. Others are not so fine. The package...

Welfare Fraud Decriminalization Bill Passes Senate Committee

April 29, 2025 8:25 pmApril 29, 2025 8:25 pm

A bill that would decriminalize criminal penalties for attempted welfare fraud for cases under $950 and eliminate criminal penalties for overpayments from administrative errors or infractions continued to move up in the Senate this month, with an Appropriations Committee vote...

Benefit Fraud Problems and Solutions

November 7, 2024 11:48 amNovember 7, 2024 11:48 am

Because that’s where the money is. That was famed bank robber Willie Sutton’s very possibly apocryphal response when asked why he robbed banks. Now the money is in government benefit programs and that’s why they are being defrauded at record...

CalWORKs ‘Assistance Unit’ Doesn’t

October 13, 2024 8:33 amOctober 13, 2024 8:33 am

Assistance unit. That is what the state’s welfare program – dubbed CalWORKs because it sounds better than CalGetsFreeMoneyForMakingBadChoices – refers to its beneficiaries as: an “assistance unit.” Not a family, not a household (those things could be very different, let...

It’s a SNAP – And it Can Be Hacked A Number of Ways

October 7, 2024 2:45 pmOctober 7, 2024 2:45 pm

The program was known for years as food stamps. It was meant to provide assistance to people in need, making sure they had at least enough to eat and it literally distributed books of stamps to be used at grocery...

Job Creation under the Unemployment Insurance Code

July 17, 2024 2:52 amJuly 17, 2024 2:53 am

The California Unemployment Insurance Code in Division 9 contains a CalWORKs Program on Job Creation. Section 17000 defines the term department as the Employment Development Department (EDD). Section 17001 requires the EDD, “consistent with the ongoing relationships that the department...

Legislative Analyst and Gov. Newsom Still Disagree on Budget Deficit and Solutions

May 20, 2024 7:51 amMay 20, 2024 7:51 am

The Legislative Analyst’s Office updated spending plan in Gov. Newsom’s revised budget shows a $55 billion budget deficit as opposed to the $27.6 billion figure Newsom presented last week, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The LAO released its latest...