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Statewide cost‑allocation plan explained: $78M program spreads central service costs across agencies
Summary
Jared Tetrault briefed the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on the statewide cost allocation plan (SWICAP), describing how costs for the attorney general, state controller and treasurer and select direct‑billing services are recovered across state agencies and funds and noting the plan recovers roughly $78 million statewide.
Jared Tetrault presented the statewide cost allocation plan (SWICAP) to the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on Jan. 7, describing how central‑service costs are allocated across state agencies and fund sources.
What SWICAP does: Tetrault said SWICAP is both a document and a budgeting process used to recover central‑service costs — legal services, accounting and payroll processing, and treasury functions — from agencies that benefit from those services. The fiscal mechanics work on a two‑year lag: costs appropriated for a central service in one fiscal year are reconciled to actual use and then billed back to agencies in subsequent budgets.
Who is covered: Central service agencies include the Attorney…
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