California main driver of welfare flow to illegal immigrants: HHS report
Based on reported data, California was the primary driver of the national total, accounting for about 59,600 households and about $617.5 million.
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Metro exclusive California main driver of welfare flow to illegal immigrants: HHS report By Titus Wu Published June 10, 2026, 9:30 a.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The California Post on Google More than $617 million in taxpayer-funded cash welfare flowed to California households headed by illegal immigrant parents last year — accounting for the lion’s share of such spending nationwide, according to a new federal report. The report, published Wednesday by the federal Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families and shared with The California Post, found that more than 85,000 households nationwide received cash assistance through so-called “child-only cases” in fiscal year 2024. Nearly 60,000 of those households were in California.
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