The 2024 Executive Budget Document
Governor Youngkin's Proposed Budget for the 2024-2026 Biennum
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Released on December 20, 2023 
 
Department of Social Services [765]
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
2018-2020 2019 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly $429,427,587 $1,678,486,822 $2,107,914,409
2018-2020 2020 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly $431,177,854 $1,788,437,837 $2,219,615,691
2020-2022 2021 Chapter 1, 2022 Acts of Assembly $434,112,881 $1,819,379,011 $2,253,491,892
2021-2024 2022 Chapter1, 2024 Acts of Assembly $521,761,251 $1,744,657,305 $2,266,418,556
2020-2022 2022 Chapter 1, 2022 Acts of Assembly $470,241,998 $1,660,590,401 $2,130,832,399
2021-2024 2023 Chapter1, 2024 Acts of Assembly $521,086,284 $1,842,549,651 $2,363,635,935
2024-2026 2025 Governor's Proposed Budget $579,026,707 $1,940,316,071 $2,519,342,778
    Base Budget $512,506,983 $1,810,962,063 $2,323,469,046
    Addenda (Changes to the Base) $66,519,724 $129,354,008 $195,873,732
2024-2026 2026 Governor's Proposed Budget $586,939,691 $1,911,649,847 $2,498,589,538
    Base Budget $512,506,983 $1,810,962,063 $2,323,469,046
    Addenda (Changes to the Base) $74,432,708 $100,687,784 $175,120,492
Positions Budget Summary
Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2018-2020 2019 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly 624.00 1,198.50 1,822.50
2018-2020 2020 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly 638.00 1,213.50 1,851.50
2020-2022 2021 Chapter 1, 2022 Acts of Assembly 653.00 1,224.50 1,877.50
2021-2024 2022 Chapter1, 2024 Acts of Assembly 674.00 1,086.50 1,760.50
2020-2022 2022 Chapter 1, 2022 Acts of Assembly 663.00 1,079.50 1,742.50
2021-2024 2023 Chapter1, 2024 Acts of Assembly 672.00 1,084.50 1,756.50
2024-2026 2025 Proposed Positions 675.50 1,087.00 1,762.50
    Base Budget 671.50 1,084.00 1,755.50
    Addenda (Changes to the Base) 5.00 3.00 8.00
2012-2014 2026 Proposed Positions 675.50 1,087.00 1,762.50
    Base Budget 671.50 1,084.00 1,755.50
    Addenda (Changes to the Base) 4.00 3.00 7.00
Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)
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Appropriate additional federal award funding for refugee resettlement Decision Package
  Provides additional federal appropriation for the refugee resettlement program due to an increase in the federal award.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
Nongeneral Fund $46,500,000 $46,500,000
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Appropriate nongeneral funds for local staff and operations Decision Package
  Funds the nongeneral fund portion of the salary increases for state-supported local employees and increases the federal appropriation for pass through funding at local departments of social services.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
Nongeneral Fund $42,597,179 $42,597,179
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded five percent salary increase for state-supported local employees Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for the five percent salary increase for state-supported local employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 T. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $14,511,632 $14,511,632
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Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Fund auxiliary grant rate increase Decision Package
  Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. Increases the auxiliary grant rate for assisted living facilities from $1,609 per month to $2,055 per month. The state provides 80 percent of the funding for this program, with a 20 percent local match.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $14,500,000 $14,500,000
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Fund the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work childcare forecast Decision Package
  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.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund ($1,046,220) ($2,642,374)
Nongeneral Fund $10,628,003 $12,082,951
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded five percent salary increase for state employees Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for the five percent salary increase for state employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 S. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $5,290,983 $5,290,983
Nongeneral Fund $6,674,412 $6,674,412
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Fund income verification for public benefits contract increase Decision Package
  Increases funding for the income verification for benefits contract to account for cost increases related to the contract renewal.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $5,957,200 $5,957,200
Nongeneral Fund $5,957,200 $5,957,200
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Address the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grant shortfall Decision Package
  Corrects the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant annual shortfall in appropriation in 2025 and structural shortfall in 2026 and beyond. Moves funding for Early Impact to the general fund beginning in 2025 and for employment and training grants to the general fund beginning in 2026. There are corresponding packages at the Virginia Department of Health that move funding for the Families Forward and Resource Mothers to the general fund beginning in 2025 and Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives and other contraceptives to the general fund beginning in 2026. Also removes unused appropriation for Family Restoration Services in Hampton, Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless, and Menchville House. Removes funding in 2026 for the Two Family/Whole Generation pilot ending in 2025.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $600,000 $9,600,000
Nongeneral Fund ($1,010,000) ($11,135,000)
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Recognize savings from reducing prevention services funding Decision Package
  Reduces unspent appropriation for the implementation of the federal Family First Prevention Services Act.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund ($5,000,000) ($5,000,000)
Nongeneral Fund ($5,000,000) ($5,000,000)
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Modernize the child support information system Decision Package
  Updates funding for the development of an updated child support information system.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
Nongeneral Fund $15,542,337 ($4,091,339)
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Fund the child welfare forecast Decision Package
  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.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $1,541,391 $1,653,727
Nongeneral Fund ($6,448,755) ($6,561,091)
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Sustain the relative maintenance payment program and fund supports for kinship and alternative living arrangements Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to sustain the relative maintenance payment program at current rates. Also provides funding for kinship and alternate living arrangement supports. There are corresponding packages at Virginia State Police and Office of Children's Services. One position is funded to provide staff assistance for relative maintenance payments means testing. Funds are also included to provide $250 bonus payments to local departments of social services for certain kinship foster care placements.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $8,125,922 $7,840,439
Positions 1.00 1.00
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded changes to agency information technology costs Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for changes to information technology and telecommunications usage budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 C. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $3,058,949 $3,058,949
Nongeneral Fund $3,791,442 $3,791,442
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Fund foster care and adoption cost of living adjustments Decision Package
  Raises maximum maintenance payments made to foster family homes on behalf of foster children by seven 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.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $3,486,235 $3,486,235
Nongeneral Fund $3,119,354 $3,119,354
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Fund administration for the summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) program for children Decision Package
  Provides funding for the administrative portion of the new permanent summer EBT program for children. This program was made permanent by the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $2,883,149 $2,545,649
Nongeneral Fund $2,883,149 $2,545,649
Positions 1.00 1.00
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Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Fund foster care and adoption cost of living adjustments Decision Package
  Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. Raises the maximum payments for foster care families and adoption assistance by five percent. The Act requires that rates be increased in the year following a salary increase provided to state employees.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $2,287,785 $2,287,785
Nongeneral Fund $2,001,186 $2,001,186
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Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Provide funding for two percent salary increase Decision Package
  Adjusts appropriation for the two percent salary increase for state and state supported local employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Paragraphs S, T, U, and V of Item 483, Chapter 1, 2023 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $4,259,978 $4,259,978
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Provide funding for fatherhood programs Decision Package
  Provides funding for a public media campaign to promote responsible and involved fatherhood and to develop and implement educational programming and support services for fathers. Educational materials will be developed and disseminated to local departments of social services and other applicable agencies.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $1,500,000 $2,500,000
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded property insurance premium charges Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for property insurance premiums billed by the Department of the Treasury’s Division of Risk Management budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 J. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $802,614 $802,614
Nongeneral Fund $994,469 $994,469
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Increase funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefits Transfer program contract Decision Package
  Funds an increase to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer contract.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $590,889 $832,889
Nongeneral Fund $590,889 $832,889
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Provide funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program overissuance settlement agreement Decision Package
  Provides funding to meet the terms of the settlement agreement with the federal government for benefits overissuance amounts from fall 2021.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $1,438,312 $1,338,312
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Recognize savings from rent decrease Decision Package
  Recognizes savings from an annual rent reduction related to the agency's central office move.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund ($525,158) ($525,158)
Nongeneral Fund ($787,737) ($787,737)
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded changes to state health insurance premiums Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for the employer’s share of health insurance premiums budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 G. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $275,757 $275,757
Nongeneral Fund $577,544 $577,544
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Transfer housing funding for youths aging out of foster care from the Department of Housing and Community Development Decision Package
  Transfers funding from the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide housing supports to youth aging out of foster care.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $564,000 $564,000
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Support the Judge Swett Learning Center Decision Package
  Provides funding for the Judge Swett Learning Center to promote vocational and educational classes for ex-offenders.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $500,000 $500,000
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded changes to Cardinal Financials System charges Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for changes to Cardinal Financials System internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 F. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $71,821 $71,821
Nongeneral Fund $251,036 $251,036
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded information technology auditors and security officers Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for information technology auditors and information security officers budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 E. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $153,481 $153,481
Nongeneral Fund $108,157 $108,157
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Fund adult protective services hotline capacity Decision Package
  Provides funding to address a rise in adult protective services calls to the hotline.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $246,548 $246,548
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded changes to Cardinal Human Capital Management System charges Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for changes to Cardinal Human Capital Management System internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 G. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $101,225 $101,225
Nongeneral Fund $127,613 $127,613
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Convert part-time Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) management evaluation reviewer positions to full-time positions Decision Package
  Adds five full-time positions to convert part-time SNAP evaluation reviewer positions. This conversion will allow for more comprehensive monitoring of and compliance with the federal SNAP program.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $113,224 $113,224
Nongeneral Fund $113,224 $113,224
Positions 5.00 5.00
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Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Increase funding for Youth for Tomorrow Decision Package
  Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. Provides funding to support the Youth for Tomorrow organization.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $100,000 $100,000
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded changes to agency leased space costs Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for to increased charges to customer agencies for the Department of General Services to perform lease administration services. budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 485 K. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $30,605 $30,605
Nongeneral Fund $62,899 $62,899
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Fund background checks for local department of social services employees and contractors Decision Package
  Provides funding to background check all local departments of social services employees, contractors, and candidates for employment. Once all employees are background checked, the department can utilize the federal Income Eligibility Verification System during the determination of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program eligibility.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $72,215 $0
Nongeneral Fund $104,660 $0
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded changes to Performance Budgeting system charges Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for changes to Performance Budgeting system internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 H. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund ($11,023) ($11,023)
Nongeneral Fund ($53,756) ($53,756)
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Fund advanced contact to Medicaid recipients at renewal Decision Package
  Provides one-time funding for the department to initiate a pilot program to send a text message to Medicaid recipients prior to renewal to determine if continued enrollment is desired.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $50,000 $0
Nongeneral Fund $50,000 $0
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded internal service fund charges for the Personnel Management Information System Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for Personnel Management Information System internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 I. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund ($7,116) ($7,116)
Nongeneral Fund ($14,959) ($14,959)
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded workers’ compensation premium changes Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation for workers’ compensation premiums budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 P. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund ($5,392) ($5,392)
Nongeneral Fund ($6,444) ($6,444)
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Adjust appropriation for centrally funded minimum wage increases Base Budget Adjustment
  Adjusts appropriation to reflect the increase in the Virginia minimum wage effective January 1, 2023, and budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 R. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. The amounts provided support the annualized general fund cost of increasing the Virginia minimum wage from $11.00 per hour to $12.00 per hour or the equivalent annual salary of $24,960.
 
  FY 2025 FY 2026
General Fund $718 $718
Nongeneral Fund $906 $906
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Adjust agency appropriations to better align with agency objectives Decision Package
  Transfers funding and positions between programs due to agency reorganization. This will reduce the need for administrative adjustments during the budget year.
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Add mandatory carryforward language for unspent Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System funding Decision Package
  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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