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Social Services presents payment and client-count data; board asks for clearer trends
Summary
Department of Social Services presented October payment and client-count data showing state/federal flows and county-drawn benefits; supervisors asked for year-to-date trend reporting. The meeting also included a discussion of CodeBlue shelter funding (county allocation ~ $380,000 of a $540,000 contract) and a planned OTDA presentation on shelter options.
The Department of Social Services accounting supervisor (speaker identified in the record as the accounting supervisor) presented detailed month-of-October payment information pulled from the state systems (WMS/BICS) and explained how SNAP and HEAP benefits are reported versus county-drawn payments.
According to the presentation, October 2020 checks issued through those state systems totaled $2,180,350 (8,041 individual payments); the presenter said October 2025 payments were $2,300,000. The supervisor noted SNAP benefits and counts (October 2020 average SNAP benefit cited as $197) and later reported an average SNAP benefit of $303 for…
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