An effort to shift some foster care costs to the federal government would throw up more red tape and make it harder for caretakers and providers to get services for troubled children, a coalition of child care agencies said Friday.
The secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration said error rates are down and the percentage of new applications for food stamps, Medicaid and other benefits on backlog has fallen by 83 percent in two two regions.
The state has a new transparency website that pulls together Indiana budget data, spending reports and other financial information
that had previously been spread across multiple sites.
Family and Social Services Administration Secretary Anne Murphy and acting Insurance Commissioner Stephen Robertson have sent
Gov. Mitch Daniels a letter that now estimates the overhaul will cost Indiana $235 million more than the previous estimate
in May.
Indiana is talking to federal officials about expanding its health plan for low-income adults, despite Gov. Mitch Daniels'
statements that the federal health care overhaul would kill it.
State regulators are gearing up to crack down on companies thought to be treating people as though they are independent contractors
instead of employees.
Indiana Family and Social Services Administration attorneys do not believe federal law was broken when officials balanced
food stamp
payments against a state-run supplemental aid program.
Lawsuit alleges Indiana’s social services agency illegally counts food stamps as income, resulting in a reduction of state
benefits paid to developmentally disabled people in a Medicaid waiver program.
The Logansport State Hospital will have 355 workers laid off and 80 vacant positions eliminated under the plan, while 106
people will lose jobs at the Richmond State Hospital.
John Gorman, who worked for the same company for 31 years before he was fired in December, has been waiting on a decision
for at least 100 days, and he still hasn't received his unemployment check, according to the American Civil Liberties
Union of Indiana.
State officials expect more backyard fireworks shows this year because budget problems have forced many municipalities to
cancel large professional fireworks displays.
Flooding from a drainpipe malfunction caused extensive damage to Lucas Oil Stadium’s data center prior
to its opening in August 2008.
Budget cuts and low attendance prompted the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to announce in December that it intended
to close the historic site.
Indiana Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Reed is resigning to become president of Duke Energy's Indiana
operations. Michael B. Cline, INDOT's deputy commissioner of operations, will replace him.
Indiana's latest effort to cut spending will leave the state office that provides copies of birth and death certificates
open to the public only four days a week.
Indiana drivers last year purchased more than 400,000 specialty plates, generating more than $10 million for sponsoring groups.
Some have suggested moving it west, through less-populated Morgan County, to tie into Interstate 70 near Indianapolis International
Airport.
A new state program is encouraging lenders to promote the stability of their conventional mortgages to help Indiana's
housing market rebound from a foreclosure crisis instigated by risky loans.
Indiana Department of Workforce Development leader Teresa Voors will be replaced by Mark W. Everson, commissioner of the Indiana
Department of Administration.
Twelve investment firms agree to repurchase auction rate securities from Indiana clients for a total of over $370 million
and
to pay fines totaling more than $3.5 million.
