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The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) is an agency of the Virginia state government that provides benefits and services to unemployed citizens, such as employment programs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The agency currently runs a monthly newsletter, sends monthly reports to the Virginia General Assembly , and issues press releases.
The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is a state supervised and locally administered social services system in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [1] The department is headed by a Commissioner who is appointed by the Governor of Virginia . [ 2 ]
If approved, the applicant is issued a Certificate of Self-Insurance which remains in full force and affect until voluntarily surrendered or revoked by the Commission. The self-insurer must pay directly all benefits to which the employee is entitled under Virginia Law. The Commission also requires that the self-insurer designate a single in ...
The Virginia Retirement System is an independent state agency that administers pension plans, retirement savings plans, and other benefits to public employees in the U.S. state of Virginia. [1] As of 2018, the agency ranks as the 14th largest public or private pension fund in the United States and is the 42nd largest retirement system in the world.
The current Commissioner is Joseph W. Guthrie, who was appointed on January 15, 2022. He is Virginia's 18th Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Guthrie is a sixth generation Virginia farmer, who owned and operated a beef cattle and hay farm in Pulaski County on farmland that has been in his family since 1795.
The Virginia Constitution of 1902 created the SCC to replace the Virginia Board of Public Works and the Office of Railroad Commissioner. The three-member Commission was charged with regulating the state railroads and telephone and telegraph companies and with registering corporations in Virginia. The SCC began operations on March 2, 1903.
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) oversees a network of 23 community colleges in Virginia, which serve residents of Virginia and provide two-year degrees and various specialty training and certifications. In 2006, the Virginia Community College System's annual enrollment rate topped 233,000 students.
Following the American Bar Association's "scathing report on the state of indigent defense in Virginia", [6] the VIDC was established by statute in 2004 and replaced the Public Defender Commission. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The VIDC replaced court-appointed lawyers in death penalty cases with full-time public defenders. [ 9 ]