MO Department of Social Services Dealing with Increased Turnover Rate and Worker Shortage

(MISSOURINET) –  The Missouri Department of Social Services has between 900 and one-thousand vacancies. The agency oversees child welfare services, the foster care system, Medicaid healthcare coverage, food stamps help and other needs. Karen Meyer, the agency’s Human Resources director, says the turnover rate is about 35-percent.

She says the department will continue to focus on trying to boost worker salaries and training that gets them into the field sooner.