48001100 - Social Workers for Case Management

Account Description FY2014
Spending
FY2015
GAA
4800-1100 Social Workers for Case Management
For the AA and DD object class costs of the department's social workers; provided, that funds shall mitigate social worker caseloads in those area offices furthest above the statewide weighted caseload standard and toward achieving a social worker caseload ratio of 15 to 1 statewide; provided further, that only employees of bargaining unit 8, as identified in the Massachusetts personnel administrative reporting and information system, shall be paid from this item; and provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended to hire additional staff and for associated operating costs in the department's fair hearing system
172,051,284 185,551,997