Maryland’s budget deficit for the next fiscal year has risen to nearly $3 billion, in part because of a “staggering” error in projecting costs in the state’s Developmental Disabilities Administration, state analysts said in a meeting Tuesday with top legislators.
The DDA, which is the main state agency helping to cover services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is projected to be short $350 million.
“It’s a pretty staggering miss,” David Romans, the lead fiscal and policy analyst for the Maryland Department of Legislative Services, said to legislators during a Tuesday meeting of the Spending Affordability Committee, which makes recommendations to the governor each year.
A spokesman for the Maryland Department of Health, of which the DDA is a part, didn’t respond to an email request for comment.
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