The state of California spent 16 years developing a new payroll system for the in-home supportive services program. Its initial roll out has gone so badly that Orange County officials are warning the ...

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) In ...

Richard Pena, who receives caregiving through the In-Home Support Services program, makes a poster for the March 11 rally. Photo by Annelise Pierce. In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers rallied ...

Medi-Cal insures a third of Californians, including 2.3 million older adults and people with disabilities. Nearly 1.8 million ...

“¿Quieres bailar?” Norma Galvan asks her father in Spanish if he would like to dance on a recent Friday afternoon. The 83-year-old replies “Sí, sí,” — “Yes, yes” — as his daughter guides his feet into ...

The in-home care program funded by Medi-Cal and administered by Alameda County is so fractured, unsupervised and poorly managed that a registered sex offender was able to work as a caretaker, while ...