PHOENIX  Thousands of Arizonans are going to lose services as the state Department of Economic Security cuts its funding.

In documents released Friday, the agency said it is suspending child care subsidies now providing for those considered the “working poor.’’ Overall, 20,000 children eventually will be affected.

The agency also is eliminating temporary cash assistance that now serves 38,500 children and their families as well as the general assistance program which provides up to $150 a month in interim financial relief to disabled people while they apply for and wait to qualify for federal Social Security.

Other changes detailed by DES include:

 reducing contracts with homeless shelters, reducing the capacity to serve 1,100 individuals;

 eliminating assisted living services for about 450 individuals age 60 and older out of more than 17,500;

 100 grandparents will lose cash $75amonth cash stipends to help care for the grandchildren who live with them, out of about 1,200 in that program;

 cutting substance abuse services for all 1,400 individuals in that program.

Friday’s list is the flip side of the announcement a day earlier by DES that it will require most of its approximately 11,000 workers to take up to nine days off without pay between now and the end of the budget year on June 30. The agency also said some staffers actually will be laid off.

DES already said the cutbacks will mean that all complaints of child and elderly abuse and neglect will not be investigated, particularly those where the call says there only is a “potential risk.’’

The revised budget adopted by lawmakers at the end of last month slashed about $570 million in state tax dollars from various services and programs as one part of dealing with a $1.6 billion deficit. Out of that, more than $98.5 million is out of the DES budget.

DES officials, in a prepared statement, said they had little choice but to cut services.

The agency said more than 77 percent of its budget goes to directly providing services, either in actual cash benefits or contracting for certain kinds of help. And another 15 percent is staff which provides those services like case managers and eligibility workers.

An aide to Gov. Jan Brewer called the cuts “heartbreaking.’’

“We know that they are going to have real impact on real people,’’ said Paul Senseman. “These are really difficult cuts.’’

But Brewer would not take responsibility for the cuts even though she signed the budget.

“She is the one who inherited the (Janet) Napolitano deficit,’’ Senseman said, referring to that $1.6 billion in red ink on the state’s books when Napolitano quit on Jan. 20 to run the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “She’s furious that she has had to deal with it in her first months in office.’’

Senseman acknowledged that Brewer did not put any alternatives to the cuts on the table. But he said a new budget needed to be in place by Feb. 1 to keep the deficit from growing deeper.

The changes in child care come in two forms.

First, the agency is putting virtually all new applicants for subsidized child care on waiting lists. DES figures that list will grow to about 5,100 by the end of June.

Then, in two weeks, DES will no longer provide those subsidies for families earning between 110 and 165 percent of the federal poverty level, figures that translate to between $20,100 and $30,200 for a family of three.

Dana Naimark, president of the Children’s Action Alliance, said the cuts in services for children “cut into the very fabric of community and family life’’ and said the budget decisions are “extremely destructive to Arizona’s present and future.’’

Bruce Liggett, executive director of the Arizona Child Care Association, said the cuts in child care subsidies will mainly hit working single parents who, without the state aid, cannot afford the child care. Liggett, whose organization represents both nonprofit and forprofit child care centers, said that could result in these parents losing their jobs and becoming eligible for welfare.

DES also is increasing the copays that those who still will get subsidized child care will have to provide.

Some of the changes announced Friday effectively kill programs lawmakers only recently approved.

One of those which got started just last year provided $350,000 for “respite care.’’ This program provided help to 130 people taking care of homebound seriously ill family members, allowing the caregivers to take time off, even if just to see a movie.

Various other programs also are disappearing.

DES is eliminating contracts it has in Pima and Maricopa counties to organizations reaching out to find homeless teens. The agency figures that will affect 42 youths.

Other changes include:

 putting new applicants for vocational rehabilitation services on a waiting list, a list that is expected to grow to 2,100 by June 30;

 setting up another waiting list to provide independent living services for people with disabilities, with up to 400 on that list by the end of June;

 reducing support group, counseling and crisis services for adoptive families.

Only the part of the agency that handles applications for unemployment insurance and processes the checks will be unaffected. That is because the federal government picks up the entire administrative costs; the actual benefits come from a trust fund financed by premiums paid by Arizona employers.