The creation of the new Department of Direct Care and Treatment takes effect Jan. 1, 2025, according to the human services funding bill passed by the Legislature in May.

A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the US Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and ...

Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead talked with state Sen. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, chairman of the Human Services Reform Finance and Policy Committee, in 2020.