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ALW by the numbers

The ALW waitlist, month by month

14,809 people were enrolled in the Assisted Living Waiver in February 2026 and 20,262 were on the waitlist, according to DHCS. This page keeps every month DHCS has published in one place, with the file it came from, and is updated the day a new month appears.

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On the waitlist Enrolled

What the numbers say

Between November 2024 and February 2026 the waitlist went from 6,690 to 20,262 people while enrollment went from 16,294 to 14,809. The state releases openings in priority order under Policy Letter 24-002; the counts do not say how long any one person waits, and Beta cannot predict that. How the waitlist works.

Every month DHCS has published

MonthEnrolledOn the waitlist
February 202614,80920,262
January 202614,82019,922
December 202514,84718,365
November 202514,87617,513
October 202514,98316,568
September 202515,02716,109
August 202515,14614,127
November 202416,2946,690
January 20193,695not published

Only months read directly from a DHCS file are included. Rows are added when DHCS publishes a new month; gaps are months not yet transcribed from the earlier file, not months with no data. Enrolled and waitlist are statewide counts of people.

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Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0): "ALW waitlist tracker, Beta, from DHCS enrollment and waitlist files, alwbeta.com/data/waitlist". The figures are DHCS's; Beta transcribes and dates them.

Sources

Series checked through 2026-09-17.