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Portage County JFS outlines service strains, child-care subsidies and levy rationale
Summary
Job and Family Services told commissioners it qualified 488 children for child-care subsidy in December and issued $213,000 in state payments, reported rising adult protective-services caseloads nearly matching child custody counts, and urged support for a proposed human services levy to fill program gaps.
Job and Family Services officials told the Portage County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 15 that several social-service programs are under pressure and that a proposed human services levy could blunt the impact.
Speaker 6, presenting a quarterly JFS data report for October and November, said the agency recently updated child-care subsidy figures and in December qualified 488 children and issued $213,000 in state subsidy payments to help families afford care. The presenter cautioned that some food-assistance numbers in the written report reflect reconciliation issues with federal reporting and may be inaccurate pending corrected federal data.
The JFS prese…
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