We need the help of ALL homecare consumers, providers, supporters, and their families. Please help us RIGHT AWAY to restore funding for IHSS. Here’s what is happening; Read the rest of this entry »
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By Robert Cruickshank Calitics.
We’ve been arguing here at Calitics that budget cuts merely worsen the state’s real problem, which is the economic downturn. Instead of addressing unemployment, budget cuts are increasing the ranks of the unemployed. That further delays economic recovery and worsens the state budget deficit. Now we have some academic backup for that common sense explanation. Read the rest of this entry »
Pushes Proposal for IHSS Provider Fee That Can Draw Down Federal Funds IHSS Worker Fee Would Be Similar To Quality Assurance Provider Fees for Nursing Homes and ICF/DD Providers Read the rest of this entry »
It’s not just at the State Capitol that Californians are speaking out against Schwarzenegger’s cuts to the safety net for our state’s most vulnerable citizens. It’s happening all across the state. Here’s a story about Berkeley’s disabled community and their successful “Arnieville” protest. Read the rest of this entry »
People with disabilities gather at the State Capitol to assert their human and civil rights to live outside of institutions and protest proposed budget cuts to services like IHSS. Read the rest of this entry »
Senate Democrats countered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget Monday by proposing $4.9 billion in added taxes to prevent deep cuts in safety-net programs. Republican lawmakers repeated that they refuse to support new taxes, although they have not outlined how they would cut the state’s $19.1 billion deficit, equal to roughly one-fifth of general fund spending…Read More
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Looks like desperation is beginning to set in over at Team Whitman headquarters. Monday in Roseville, Meg Whitman told a small audience that she would appoint a grand jury to root out the more than $7.5 billion in fraud she claims occurs annually in programs for the poor, seniors and people with disabilities. Tough talk. Just one problem, those numbers have absolutely no basis in reality. Read the rest of this entry »
Today, the LA Times published NSCLC’s Letter to the Editor responding to last week’s article that quoted Governor Schwarzenegger asserting the courts are “crazy” for stopping his Medicaid cuts. The full text of NSCLC’s LTE is below. Read the rest of this entry »
After release of the Governor’s budget revisions, the budget proposal goes back to the Legislature to consider and act on – either to approve his proposals (including changing them) or to reject them. Read the rest of this entry »
“…Pam, who is wheelchair bound because of a degenerative bone disease says the budget cuts should start at the top with the governor and the legislators. “Are they losing health care benefits? Optical? Dental? Podiatrists for their feet? Are they losing the same things?”… Read the rest of this entry »
Want to know what lawmakers and interest groups are saying about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revised spending proposal for the next fiscal year? Find a collection of responses after the jump. We will update the list as more responses roll in, so be sure to check back. Read the rest of this entry »
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed as part of his overall package of budget revisions a cut of up to $750 million in the IHSS program. This would represent more than 50 percent of the current program budget.
In his original state budget proposal in January, Schwarzenegger had asked for the elimination of IHSS unless the state received approximately $6.9 billion from the Federal government. Because this did not happen, some had predicted that he would ask for complete elimination of the program in the May Revise.
Nevertheless, UDW Executive Director Doug Moore vowed that UDW and its allies will fight the proposed cut in the state legislature. He called upon UDW members to urge their legislators to oppose the IHSS cuts.
“The governor would rather deprive an elderly Alzheimer’s patient of needed home care than tax oil production like every other oil producing state does,” Moore said “He’d rather close schools than tax loopholes. This budget is fiscally irresponsible and morally reprehensible. Cuts alone will not solve our budget problems.” Read the rest of this entry »
Cutting IHSS by Half Will Jeopardize Lives and Cost Taxpayers More
Reactions to the proposed cuts by IHSS consumers and advocates:
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Mariko Yamada (D-Davis) issued the following statement today regarding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s May revisions to the state budget:
“I am as concerned about the moral bankruptcy reflected in the cruelty of the Governor’s budget as I am about fixing the fiscal difficulties facing our State. I am tired of hearing that there is ‘no money’. There is money; the problem lies in where we are spending it.
“Eliminating CalWORKS and reducing IHSS is a particular assault on women. Abolishing all state aid for childcare prevents millions of women from going back to work and generating revenue for the state while simultaneously doing away with thousands of care giver jobs dominated by women.
“Everything must be on the table, and that includes revenue solutions and restructuring of the budget system. If there is no more low-hanging fruit as the Governor stated, we need to get creative and find ways to plant new trees.”
More information on State Budget Impacts to IHSS
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CDCAN REPORT #080-2010: Governor Withdraws Earlier IHSS Proposed Cuts – But Proposes $750 Million Reduction to IHSS With Stakeholder Group With Details to Be Submitted to Legislature By July 1st - Read the rest of this entry »
– Follows Senate Budget Subcommittee Action Last Week . Law Remains In Force Until Full Legislature and Governor Approve It As Part of 2010-2011 State Budget Read the rest of this entry »
Two Republican members of an Assembly subcommittee have joined a largely Democratic move to stop a $41.6 million plan to fingerprint recipients of subsidized in-home care.
GOP assemblymen Bill Emmerson of Hemet and Brian Nestande of Palm Desert voted in their budget subcommittee Wednesday to stop spending $8.2 million this year on the anti-fraud plan, which would cost an estimated $41.6 million over seven years. Read the rest of this entry »
By Nancy Berlin, CAP
With less than a week until Governor Schwarzenegger unveils his revised May budget, there’s little hope that California’s struggling economy will see any reprieve from the threat of draconian cuts to vital services and unnecessary and wasteful corporate giveaways. Read the rest of this entry »
North Coast Assemblyman Wes Chesbro is calling the governor out on the $41.6 million anti-fraud plan that includes the photographing and fingerprinting of In-Home Support Services recipients. ”The (Arnold) Schwarzenegger administration and the Department of Social Services have yet to identify to us the problem they’re trying to solve, or that it provides any kind of solution — in the absence of that evidence or information, it’s a waste of $41.6 million in taxpayer money,” Chesbro said Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Concern and confusion about the new IHSS provider enrollment requirements–especially about new eligibility criteria and criminal background checks–has caused many providers to delay enrolling in the program. This is becoming a serious problem for IHSS providers and clients and for our union.
That is why we want to provide you with the FACTS about the new enrollment requirements and to urge you to enroll in the program as soon as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, May 6, the Senate Budget Subcommittee #3 on Health & Human Services voted to reject the $8.2 million ($4.4 million from the state general fund) that the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) is requesting to purchase a Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System (SFIS). Read the rest of this entry »
See below for upcoming events near you – and please forward to your networks, too! Read the rest of this entry »
KPBS News – A plan to target fraud in California’s state-funded in-home care would cost almost $42 million for seven years. The proposal comes at a time when the program for the disabled may be facing further massive cuts. Read the rest of this entry »
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