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| Fund the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work childcare forecast |
Decision Package |
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Updates appropriation to properly account for the anticipated cost of providing mandated Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits. Benefits include cash assistance payments, employment services, and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work child care. This package also includes adjustments to the Unemployed Parents program. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$10,462,511 |
$5,218,718 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$9,762,358 |
$4,164,376 |
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| • |
| Appropriate nongeneral fund for local staff and operations |
Decision Package |
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Funds the nongeneral fund portion of the salary increase state-supported local employees received in 2023 and increases the federal appropriation for pass through funding at local departments of social services. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$14,395,343 |
$15,115,109 |
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| • |
| Adjust the child welfare forecast |
Decision Package |
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Adjusts funding for the cost of providing foster care and adoption subsidy payments. Based on recent expenditure trends and the impact of child welfare policy changes, this amendment adjusts the appropriation for the necessary costs of providing payments to foster care and adoptive families. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
($14,338,948) |
($5,645,890) |
| Nongeneral Fund |
($566,050) |
($5,884,666) |
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| • |
| Adjust appropriation to modernize the child support information system |
Decision Package |
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Provides additional nongeneral funds to replace rather than re-platform the child support information system. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$9,976,000 |
|
| • |
| Implement Office of the State Inspector General child protective services audit recommendations |
Decision Package |
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| |
Aims to address high child protective services caseloads, inadequate staffing levels, the need for increased supervision and support at local departments, and a lack of staff for the state child protective services hotline. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$8,274,569 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$28,853 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
18.00 |
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| • |
| Meet compliance standards for local departments of social services shared site technology support |
Decision Package |
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| |
Develops a new virtual desktop model to provide local department shared support sites with the functionality the locality requires, while also maintaining compliance with commonwealth security standards. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$3,800,143 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$3,800,143 |
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| • |
| Provide funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program overissuance repayment |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funding to repay the federal government for benefits overissuance amounts from fall 2021. Language unallots the funding until such time as the agency has exhausted its appeals options. |
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FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$6,105,940 |
$0 |
|
| • |
| Fund foster care and adoption cost of living adjustments |
Decision Package |
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Raises maximum maintenance payments made to foster family homes on behalf of foster children by five percent. This increase is also assumed for adoption subsidy funding to ensure that adoption subsidies keep pace with foster family rates and to avoid any disincentives to adoption. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$2,287,785 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$2,001,186 |
|
| • |
| Sustain and expand Kinship Navigator programs |
Decision Package |
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| |
Expands the Kinship Navigator program from six to 12 programs and funds all programs using general fund dollars after current federal grants expire. Language is included to require the agency to continue applying for federal grants for this purpose until funding is no longer available. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$935,196 |
|
| • |
| Convert part-time Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program management evaluation reviewer positions to full-time positions |
Decision Package |
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| |
Adds five full-time positions to convert part-time Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program evaluation reviewer positions. This conversion will allow for more comprehensive monitoring of and compliance with the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$110,854 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$110,855 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
5.00 |
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| • |
| Add mandatory carryforward language for unspent Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System funding |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides flexibility to continue the systems build without additional potential delays stemming from requesting appropriation carryforward through the discretionary process or through the budget process. |
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| Adjust agency appropriations to better align with agency objectives |
Decision Package |
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Transfers funding and positions between programs due to agency reorganization. This will reduce the need for administrative adjustments during the budget year. |
