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don't have enough," said Mrs. Kreitler.
Although the budget lists welfare administration tat $237,657) separately from public assistance (at $1S7.)H)1), the division is arbitrary in that services and assistance are also provided by the administrators, according to Mrs. Kreitler.
Because of staff limitations that have required the director to fill in for the social worker. Mrs. Kreitler said she will have payment for 600 hours of overtime coming upon her retirement this July 1. And despite the extra hours, the county is still not in compliance with regulations on one foster care case, a situation that has existed for four years, she noted. Theoretically, the state — which owes the federal government millions of dollars in reimbursement for similar cases throughout Virginia — could demand repayment from Rappahannock for its share of service cost provided for the non-compliant foster care case, she added. "If we had more people, that would not happen."
Staff limitation is also the reason why "elderly people are not getting the services they need" and why a protective services case involving a child judged to be at very high risk for suicide is not getting the attention merited, she said.
“And there's a lot of sexual abuse in this county . . . We could do a lot of preventive services (with another social worker) that we’re not doing now . . . It's not true we work only with poor people. We are service facilitators."
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