Groups providing critical services to West Virginia foster care children, including driving them to see their biological parents, are calling on Gov. Patrick Morrisey and the Human Services secretary to immediately halt a new transportation documentation policy, saying it’s excessive, redundant and “forcing some providers to discontinue services.”

The mileage log policy change followed Morrisey’s executive order to weed out wasteful spending in state government. It resulted in state Department of Human Services officials finding numerous “unusual discrepancies” with Socially Necessary Services providers’ mileage.

There are nearly 6,000 children in the state’s overwhelmed foster care system. Multiple Socially Necessary Services providers support these children by transporting them to

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