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Washington County trims PRC benefit caps and removes several assistance programs
Summary
The commissioners approved an update to the county PRC plan that removes Drivers Education Assistance, Technology Assistance, and Visitation and Safe Exchange Center programs and reduces PRC employment/contingency caps from $2,000 to $1,000 and the gas card cap from $100 to $25.
The Washington County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 5 approved an update to the county’s Prevention, Retention, and Contingency (PRC) Plan that reduces benefit caps and removes several programs.
Under the approved update to the JFS PRC Plan, the board removed Drivers Education Assistance, Technology Assistance, and the Visitation and Safe Exchange Center programs from the PRC offering. The update also lowers the cap for regular PRC employment services and contingency services from $2,000 to $1,000 and reduces the cap for gas cards from $100 to $25.
Commissioner Eddie D. Place moved to adopt the PRC Plan update; Commissioner Ronald G. Nohe seconded. The motion passed unanimously (Charlie L. Schilling aye; Eddie D. Place aye; Ronald G. Nohe aye). The transcript does not record detailed discussion of the rationale or impact estimates for the changes.
The change will alter the county’s PRC assistance limits and available program categories; the county did not provide beneficiary counts or an implementation timetable at the meeting.
