Modernizes foster care rates and stabilizes the child-serving workforce in West Virginia.
The Sustainable Child-Serving Workforce and Foster Care Modernization Act updates foster care rates to reflect current costs and includes incentive payments for retention and placement stability. The Department of Human Services, Bureau for Social Services, will rebase basic, special, and therapeutic foster care rates using current cost data and implement an automatic annual adjustment based on indices like the Employment Cost Index for Health Care & Social Assistance or the CPI-Medical index.
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