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DHHS officials defend FTE block grant as committee reviews vacancy report and salary accounting
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Deputy Commissioner Sarah Stolt told House appropriators the DHHS FTE block grant lets the department repurpose salary savings from long-term vacancies to meet critical needs while staying within its overall salary appropriation.
Deputy Commissioner Sarah Stolt and finance and HR officials told the House Appropriations Human Service Division that the Department of Health and Human Services has been using a salary “FTE block grant” to repurpose unfilled positions, convert long-term temporary employees to full-time status and respond to critical workforce needs — and defended the department’s accounting for vacancy roll-up.
Stolt said the block grant gives the department flexibility to manage one overall salary appropriation while changing where employee positions are assigned. “The FTE block grant allows us to address critical and emerging needs within the total salary appropriation using the salary savings that we have from turnover,” Stolt said during the hearing.
The department submitted a detailed vacancy report dated Dec. 1…
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