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HHSA outlines multi-point plan after multi-year social-services deficit; board approves added realignment transfer and loan extension
Summary
Health & Human Services reported entitlement-driven growth in EBT and IHSS costs that has produced a multiyear social-services shortfall, and the Board approved a second 10% transfer of public-health realignment and an extension of a general-fund loan through Dec. 31, 2025.
Health & Human Services presented a multi-point plan and financial update to the Board of Supervisors on Oct. 21 after reporting multiyear increases in entitlement spending that have outpaced available realignment revenue.
Aaron Watts, branch director for HHSA Administration, said the social-services fund has seen rapidly rising costs for direct client payments (EBT) and In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) maintenance-of-effort. “In 2021 there was a $6.8 million surplus,” Watts said, noting that by recent years…
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