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ALW report, October 2026: enrollment and waitlist

Two sources give California's Assisted Living Waiver (ALW) counts today. The DHCS monthly file ends at March 2026: 15,910 people on the waitlist and 14,831 enrolled. DHCS testimony to the California Senate on August 12, 2026 gave 17,886 on the waitlist and 14,495 enrolled.

The public monthly file stops at March 2026, while the testimony is later. Between the two, the waitlist count is 1,976 more in the testimony than in the latest file month, and enrollment is 336 fewer. They are separate sources and are never added together here.

The figures side by side

Point in time and sourceEnrolledOn the waitlist
December 2025 (DHCS monthly file)14,84718,365
March 2026 (DHCS monthly file, latest month)14,83115,910
August 12, 2026 (DHCS testimony to the Senate)14,49517,886

Monthly rows: California DHCS, ALW Year to Date Enrollment and Waitlist, January 2019 through March 2026 (PDF, uploaded July 2026), all months re-read on October 15, 2026. Testimony row: California Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 3 on Health and Human Services, hearing of August 12, 2026, transcript, read October 16, 2026. When Beta last checked, on October 16, 2026, DHCS had published no monthly ALW figures after March 2026.

The series, January 2019 to March 2026

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On the waitlist Enrolled

The chart and the table of every month, with CSV and JSON downloads, are on the ALW waitlist tracker. The counts are statewide; DHCS does not publish county counts. They do not say how long any one person waits, and Beta cannot predict how long any one person waits. How the waitlist works.

What changed this quarter

  • October 16, 2026: the hearing figures were added to the tracker as a separate source: 17,886 on the waitlist and 14,495 enrolled, as DHCS told the Senate on August 12, 2026. What DHCS told the Senate.
  • October 15, 2026: every month from January 2019 to March 2026 was re-read from the DHCS file posted in July 2026, 87 months in all. The tracker changelog.
  • October 19, 2026: the 2026 DHCS tier rates, Tier 1 to Tier 5, were checked and set out on a page of their own. ALW tier rates 2026 and the 2026 rate sheet.

Cite this report

Beta ALW, ALW report, October 2026, alwbeta.com/data/alw-report-2026-q4, from DHCS enrollment and waitlist files and DHCS testimony to the California Senate, August 12, 2026. CC BY 4.0.

Data and sources

Published October 26, 2026. The figures are DHCS's; Beta transcribes and dates them.

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