Attached is a budget memo from the County Welfare Directors Association, the Service Employees International Union, the California State Association of Counties, the Urban Counties of California, and the Rural County Representatives of California.

This memo requests $245 million one-time in FY 2025-2026 to make counties whole for the underfunding of the Single Allocation (counties overspent the eligibility component by $245 million in FY 2023-24) and that the Administration update the eligibility component of the Single Allocation budget methodology beginning in FY 2026-27 and ongoing to reflect the true costs of eligibility workload.