Mr. Giuliani's aides likened the workers to social service caseworkers.

That money handles the existing workload and pay for employees either mandated by law or considered essential, like social service caseworkers and jail guards.

After settling in New York, he chose to help victims like himself as a social service caseworker.

Janina received a call from the tracing service caseworker and was soon talking to her long-lost uncle and aunt.

There were 13,000 more teachers, 10,000 more social service caseworkers, 5,000 more corrections officers, 700 more park workers.

The package includes $12.7 million to restore some of the threatened jobs and $1.8 million to improve salaries of social service caseworkers.

The legislative package also includes measures to limit the work load for social service caseworkers, give parents full access to information about abuse that children suffer while in foster care and create regional diagnostic centers to treat abused children.

She and her husband of 28 years, Michael, were born in New York city but moved to Westchester to take jobs as social service caseworkers.

And some states allow social service caseworkers to order child support payments, but New York leaves the task to the courts, which are already overburdened.

In 1968, Mrs. Arno, who is 58 years old, began working as a social service caseworker at Cumberland, then a full-service city hospital, after a brief stint in a private hospital.