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Umatilla County human services director highlights veteran-claim gains, developmental-disability workload and Medicaid risk
Summary
Human Services Director Kim Beck told commissioners veterans services helped bring $500,000 into the county year-to-date and that over the last 20 months county developmental-disability supports represented about $55 million in services; she warned potential Medicaid cuts would have large downstream impacts.
Kim Beck, director of human services, briefed the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners on veteran services and the county developmental-disabilities (DD) program during the budget hearing.
Beck told the board the county's veteran-services staff have stabilized at three positions and are fielding more than 1,100 calls per year; the office already facilitated about $500,000 in veteran benefit payments to local residents this year. She said staff completed about 370 claims in the prior year and that, year-to-date, the office is roughly one-third ahead of last year's pace.
"We are the front door," Beck said of the county DD office, describing the department as the eligibility and…
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