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Job and Family Services details IT transfers, unemployment system replacement and TANF choices
Summary
JFS Director Matt Damschroder told the Senate Finance Committee that Ohio will replace its outdated unemployment insurance system with a commercial product and fund the work through an employer-side administrative fee; the department will also assume Ohio Benefits from DAS and consolidate certain assistance program oversight.
Matt Damschroder, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (JFS), described three major administration and IT items before the Senate Finance Committee: (1) program transfers, (2) the Ohio Benefits system move from the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) to JFS, and (3) replacement of the state's unemployment insurance (UI) computer system.
Damschroder said the executive budget proposes to move several means-tested household assistance programs (including the Community Services Block Grant oversight) from the Department of Development to JFS to consolidate similar program administration in one agency.…
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