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What SWICAP is and why statewide cost allocation shows up in many budgets
Summary
A Legislative Services presentation explained the statewide cost allocation plan (SWICAP), how central service and direct‑billing costs are recovered across agencies, the plan's two‑year lag, and recent dollar amounts that appear in the governor's budget adjustments.
Statewide cost allocation (known in the budget documents as SWICAP) is the process Idaho uses to recover shared central service costs—such as legal, payroll and treasury work—across state agencies, a Legislative Services presentation to the Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee explained on Jan. 7.
The presentation, given to the committee by Jared Tetrault, described SWICAP as a published plan the Division of Financial Management prepares and submits to the federal cognizant agency to show how the state apportions central costs across fund sources and eligible entities. The plan determines two broad types of budget adjustments lawmakers routinely see: allocations that recover central service costs (attorney general, state controller, state treasurer) and direct billings for services provided to…
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