Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services [262]
Secretarial Area: Health and Human Resources
Operating Budget Summary
This table shows the Governor's proposed budget for the next two years and the agency's official budget for the previous six years.
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Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2008-2010 2009 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly $27,838,245 $119,300,867 $147,139,112
2008-2010 2010 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly $24,916,544 $119,595,760 $144,512,304
2010-2012 2011 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly $22,372,342 $121,495,760 $143,868,102
2010-2012 2012 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly $26,239,433 $121,495,760 $147,735,193
2012-2014 2013 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly $26,839,735 $135,934,558 $162,774,293
2012-2014 2014 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly $47,287,788 $174,230,784 $221,518,572
2014-2016 2015 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly $51,186,293 $167,890,169 $219,076,462
2014-2016 2015 Base Budget $47,287,788 $174,230,784 $221,518,572
2014-2016 2015 Governor's Amendments $3,898,505 ($6,340,615) ($2,442,110)
2014-2016 2015 General Assembly Adjustments $0 $0 $0
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly $51,223,326 $167,890,169 $219,113,495
2014-2016 2016 Base Budget $47,287,788 $174,230,784 $221,518,572
2014-2016 2016 Governor's Amendments $3,935,538 ($6,340,615) ($2,405,077)
2014-2016 2016 General Assembly Adjustments $0 $0 $0
Positions Budget Summary
Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2008-2010 2009 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly 114.75 589.25 704.00
2008-2010 2010 Chapter 872, 2010 Acts of Assembly 91.75 589.25 681.00
2010-2012 2011 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly 91.75 589.25 681.00
2010-2012 2012 Chapter 2, 2012 Acts of Assembly 92.75 590.25 683.00
2012-2014 2013 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly 91.75 593.25 685.00
2012-2014 2014 Chapter 1, 2014 Acts of Assembly 111.75 605.25 717.00
2014-2016 2015 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly 68.00 945.00 1,013.00
2014-2016 2015 Base Budget 111.75 605.25 717.00
2014-2016 2015 Governor's Amendments (43.75) 339.75 296.00
2014-2016 2015 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 3, 2014 Acts of Assembly 68.00 945.00 1,013.00
2014-2016 2016 Base Budget 111.75 605.25 717.00
2014-2016 2016 Governor's Amendments (43.75) 339.75 296.00
2014-2016 2016 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)
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Distribute Central Appropriation amounts to agency budgets Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts the agency budget to reflect amounts moved to or from Central Appropriations to cover the continued cost of public employee salary increases, increases in state employee health insurance premiums, changes in state employee retirement and other benefit contribution rates, and other centrally funded items being continued from the 2012-14 biennium into the 2014-16 biennium.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $382,599 $382,599
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Align base budget to reflect current operations Decision Package
  Modifies the agency's budget to align the appropriation and position level with the proper service areas and expenditure subobjects to reflect current operations.
 
  FY FY
Nongeneral Fund ($6,340,615) ($6,340,615)
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Provide funding to maintain group and home delivered meals for seniors Decision Package
  Increases state funding for Area Agencies on Aging to offset the impact of federal sequestration on nutrition programs for seniors. Federal budget reductions have cut these programs by 8.6 percent, which has reduced group meals by 122,000 and home-delivered by 96,000. This action adds state funding to reverse the impact on these programs.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,231,138 $1,231,138
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Transfer guardianship funding from Department of Behaviorial Health and Developmental Services Decision Package
  Moves funds from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to provide public guardianship and conservator services for clients of DBHDS. This is a permanent transfer of funding that has been transfered administratively in the past pursuant to a cooperate agreement between the two agenices. This transfer eliminates the need for the annual administrative adjustment.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,083,950 $1,083,950
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Transfer vocational rehabilitation funding from Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Decision Package
  Moves funds from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to provide vocational rehabilitation services to clients of DBHDS. This is a permanent transfer of the funds, which have previously been transferred each year administratively pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the agencies. This action eliminates the need for the annual administrative transfer.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $999,430 $999,430
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Provide additional support for brain injury services Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to expand brain injury case management services. Case management is a critical service to connect people impacted with a brain injury to the appropriate services that will help them improve their lives. In addition, this funding supplements existing brain injury programs to cover increased costs and to expand the number of clients served.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $150,000 $150,000
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Provide funding to stablize public guardianship and conservator programs Decision Package
  Increases funding for public guardianship and conservator programs to ensure continued operations. This action provides additional support for the 14 guardianship programs that cover 80 percent of the Commonwealth. Public guardianship and conservator programs are the guardians of last resort under state law. The programs have struggled with cost increases over the years and this funding will help them maintain their levels of service.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $99,773 $99,773
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Consolidate shared services support Decision Package
  Transfers funding from the Department for Aging and Rehabiliative Services (DARS) to the Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DDHH) to reflect a previous transfer from the mid-1990s related to back office support. DDHH along with other disability service agencies (DSA), currently pays DARS to perform some of its routine back office functions (payroll, procurement, human resources, etc.). As part of the renegotiation of this agreement, DARS and DDHH agreed that $50,000 should be credited to DDHH to account for a previous funding transfer. Since the relationship between the agencies is contractual in nature, all funding should reside with the customer agency, in this case DDHH. Therefore, this action moves $50,000 general fund from DARS to DDHH to reverse the prior action.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($50,000) ($50,000)
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Fund agency costs for the new Cardinal accounting system Decision Package
  Provides appropriation to the agency's budget to pay for the agency's share of the costs for the new Cardinal accounting system. The Department of Accounts allocates the yearly cost of the system to agencies based upon the number of transactions the agency completed in the previous fiscal year.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $33,361
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Adjust agency appropriation for the cost of Performance Budgeting system charges Decision Package
  Provides appropriation to pay for the agency's share of ongoing Performance Budgeting system operating and maintenance costs. The general fund share of this cost was previously budgeted in Central Appropriations.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $4,678 $4,678
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Fund changes in state employee workers' compensation premiums Decision Package
  Adjusts the agency's budget for workers' compensation premiums based on the allocation of 2015 and 2016 program costs provided by the Department of Human Resource Management. The allocation is based on the historical experience of the agency and reflects the current policy of providing agencies with 50 percent of any increased costs and allowing agencies to retain 50 percent of any reduced costs.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($2,703) ($2,428)
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Adjust funding to agencies for information technology and telecommunication charges Decision Package
  Adjusts the agency's budget for information technology and telecommunication charges based on the required cost of living adjustments contained in the Northrop Grumman contract and the elimination of the debt recovery surcharge originally approved by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission on July 12, 2010.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1 $3,398
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Adjust funding for premium changes in the automobile insurance liability program Decision Package
  Adjusts agency funding for the approved premium changes in the state's automobile insurance liability program.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($361) ($361)
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Modify commissioner's salary range Decision Package
  Increases the salary of the Commissioner for Aging and Rehabilitative Services by 10 percent and changes the agency head salary classification for the agency from Level III to Level II in the general provisons of the appropriation act.
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Reallocate federal appropriation to reflect current budget Decision Package
  Transfers federal appropriation between service areas. This action moves unneeded federal appropriation from the information technology service area to adult services program administration where federal expenditures have increased. This action nets to zero.
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Reflect actual position level of agency Decision Package
  Increases the position level to show the actual position level of the agency in the budget. This action does not authorize any new positions, it simply reflects existing ones that have not been adjusted in the budget over the years because of an exemption to the agency's maximum employment level for disability determination employees. This exemption was previously granted years ago because the employees are primarily federally funded, however the increases in positions over the years should have been reflected in the budget. This change increases transparency of the agency's budget since previously about 30 percent of the agency's positions were not appropriated.
 
  FY FY
Positions 296.00 296.00
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Transfer independent living funds to the proper service area Decision Package
  Moves general fund appropriation for independent living services from the Vocational Rehabilitation service area to the Community Rehabilitation service area. This action is a technical adjustment to reflect the appropriate service area where the expenditures actually occur. This transfer nets to zero.


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