Nearly 1,000 employees who work at W.Va. DHHR's Bureau of Social Services to get 15% raise

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — State officials said nearly 1,000 direct service employees of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Bureau for Social Services will be getting a 15% salary increase.

The raises for the 970 workers will go into effect June 18, according to a news release from DHHR.

A new child welfare dashboard showing publicly available information on Child Protective Service placements, referrals and workloads and other important information will be on the DHHR’s website starting June 1, the agency said.

Eleven classifications will receive the salary increase: adult protective service worker trainee; adult protective service worker; adult protective service supervisor; child protective service case coordinator; child protective service worker trainee; child protective service worker; child protective service worker senior; child protective service supervisor; health and human service aide; social service worker 2 and social service worker 3.

“I told you we’d get this done and we got it done without spending any excess money,” Gov. Jim Justice said. “I always say we need to mind the store, and we’ve done it the right way. As a result, we’re now able to compensate these people that are doing incredible work. I appreciate all the great work by Secretary Crouch and so many people at DHHR that have put in a lot of good licks on this.”

DHHR Cabinet Secretary Bill Crouch said improving DHHR’s child welfare system “has been a top priority of mine as well as the governor’s and the Legislature. It was important to me to implement the salary increases and the child welfare dashboard as quickly as possible.”