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Siskiyou County warns federal funding freeze could cost social services about $352,083 a month
Summary
County social-services leaders told the board a federal hold on certain ACF funds could cut roughly $352,083 in federal revenue each month across programs including CalWORKs, child welfare and child care, and urged the board to plan contingencies and accept a DA presentation on fraud oversight.
Siskiyou County officials warned supervisors on Jan. 24 that a federal funding freeze affecting programs run through the Administration for Children and Families could force the county to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in monthly costs.
"In total, we have 330 cases, 844 people with an average loss of $352,083 per month in federal dollars," Kirk Henderson (identified in the record also as Kirk Hendricks), the deputy director of administrative services, told the board as he reviewed program-by-program estimates.
County Health and Human Services’ Social Services director Trish Barbieri said the freeze — first announced by the U.S. Department of Health…
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