BATON ROUGE - The secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services requested and received a huge pay cut, department officials confirmed Friday. 

The secretary, David Matlock, who began heading the department upon Governor Jeff's Landry's appointment, seemingly requested his salary be cut from $175,000 to $50,648. 

This request was approved and signed off on by the state commissioner Taylor Barras. 

Officials who confirmed the pay cut with WBRZ did not give a reason for the request. 

WBRZ has reached out to the DCFS' office for more information.