California Could Bear Over $1 Billion Worth of Costs to Maintain CalFresh Under Cost-Shift Scenarios
Estimated Total CalFresh Benefits Issued in Fiscal Year 2026 = $12.30 Billion
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Cost in Billions $
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# of Recipients for hypothetical cost-shift scenarios.
The "Cost in Billions $" chart displays how much California would have to pay to fund a portion in CalFresh benefits under 3 difference cost-shift scenarios. Under a 10% cost-shift, California would have to pay $1.2 billion.
The "# of Recipients" charts displays how many participants would be state funded or federal funded under the same 3 cost shift-scenarios. Under a 10% cost-shift, over 541,000 recipients would have to be funded by the state.
