The IHSS program, established in 1973 under then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, helps some 440,000 elderly or disabled Californians stay in their homes by providing low-wage caregivers who cook them meals or ...

An In-Home Supportive Services care provider helps a client at her home in Thousand Oaks. Proposed budget cuts would close the IHSS program to unauthorized immigrants. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times ...

2024 IHSS changes make services more accessible for disabled and special need families. MediCal program, In Home Support Services (IHSS) seeks to equalize services for families of minors with ...

California’s program to provide in-home care for its low-income elderly and disabled residents finds itself once again at the heart of a state budget standoff.

The In-Home Supportive Services program pays assistants to help people who are elderly or disabled stay safely in their own homes. In Los Angeles County, IHSS caregivers make $16 an hour.

Last week, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch issued a temporary restraining order barring the state from excluding people with felony records from working as caregivers in California's ...

Last year, the governor persuaded the Legislature to allocate about $36 million to establish new anti-fraud screenings, fingerprinting requirements and county-led investigations for the IHSS program.

If these proposed budget cuts pained the governor so much, then why did he propose massive cuts to the IHSS program in every year that he’s been in office — even during good economic times?

2024 IHSS changes make services more accessible for disabled and special need families. MediCal program, In Home Support Services (IHSS) seeks to equalize services for families of minors with ...