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Job and Family Services details agency transfers, Ohio Benefits move and plan to replace unemployment system with fee proposal
Summary
Director Matt Damschroder told the Senate Finance Committee that the Department of Job and Family Services wants to centralize several assistance programs, transfer the Ohio Benefits system to JFS, and replace the aging unemployment insurance system using an administrative fee structure to fund the modernization.
Matt Damschroder, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (JFS), told the Senate Finance Committee on April 8 the agency is seeking transfers of several programs into JFS and described plans to modernize Ohio’s unemployment insurance system.
The agency proposed moving means‑tested assistance programs and the Community Services Block Grant from the Department of Development into JFS to consolidate state supervision of household assistance programs. Damschroder told senators the proposal is intended to preserve local delivery by community action agencies and counties while achieving…
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