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Rutherford County DSS reports program overages, near-exhaustion of disaster assistance funds and Medicaid redeterminations
Summary
Rutherford County Department of Social Services finance staff presented the agency’s budget report and warned that several program lines were over budget even as total spending remained below the nine‑month benchmark.
Rutherford County Department of Social Services finance staff presented the agency’s budget report and warned that several program lines are over budget even as the department’s total spending remains below the nine‑month benchmark.
In the board meeting, staff reported the department’s total budget at roughly 69.87% of annual appropriation, which they said is about 5.15 percentage points below the expected 75% benchmark for nine months elapsed. The program side showed significant overages: state foster care and specific foster-related lines were described as far over budget, with some foster-related categories…
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