It’s taking a little longer to get technical issues resolved in the payout of the DD case resource manager settlement.
But it’s worth the time so none of the recipients of the $1 million settlement is shorted.
To recap, the settlement was OK’d by the Legislature and the courts last year to settle the pay equity lawsuit. The case resource managers were doing work comparable to that done by social workers, but not getting paid for it.
Since then, the settlement money has been transferred, the third-party administrator has been chosen and the formula for disbursement finalized.
However, the key information from the Department of Personnel on recipients, including work history that would determine how much of the settlement each would get, had several discrepancies that we have to challenge them on.
There are discrepancies affecting about 10 percent of the case resource managers entitled to the settlement. We do not want anyone to be shorted because of DOP’s errors.
When the settlement checks finally go out, they will include what each recipient is entitled to, plus their share of interest on the $1 million since it was deposited in the bank.
We’ll keep you updated.
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