Judicial committee greenlights new child-welfare legal office
Proposal would move child representation in removal cases from public defenders to new Guardian Ad Litem office. Similar parents measure still being studied.
Department of Family Services
Shutdown threatens food programs; millions in lost wages
Lawmakers have no plans to deal with a looming funding crisis for Wyoming’s food-for-the-needy programs which will run out of money in February and March if the federal shutdown continues.
Will the appropriation committee’s new vision survive?
Drake lauds conservative legislators who’ve put essential programs ahead of additional savings in their proposed budget.
Welfare fraud prevention bill moves to Senate floor
A Senate committee moved a bill Wednesday that would require the Wyoming Department of Family Services to scrutinize applicants for assistance, conduct reviews of eligibility, and allow the department to hire a third-party fraud investigator.
Wyoming’s poor need higher wages, not drug-testing for “welfare”
This year, a bill was introduced — eventually defeated — to require Wyoming’s poor to submit to drug-testing as a condition to receiving public aid. Rodger McDaniel, former director of the Wyoming Department of Family Services believes it isn't an issue about money, but people.