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Anti-fraud cost for in-home care could be $41.6 million

Sacramento Bee – A plan to fingerprint and photograph elderly and disabled recipients of subsidized in-home care will cost $41.6 million over the next seven years, according to a planning document produced by the California Health and Human Services Agency. Read more

Director of LA DPSS: “It’s Cheaper to Stay at Home”

“…Ironically, the federal government currently pays 62% of the cost to provide IHSS services. If these drastic cuts are made to the IHSS program, the State stands to lose this federal assistance. The State will also have a much larger bill to pay in order to cover all of the displaced IHSS consumers who will likely require some level of more expensive institutionalization…” Read the rest of this entry »

IHSS Coalition Letter on Fingerprinting, Budget Cuts

The IHSS Coalition–to which UDW belongs–has written a strong letter to legislators prior to the important May 5th Assembly Budget Committee hearing on the Governor’s January IHSS Budget Proposal and problems with the implementation of the IHSS Anti-Fraud Initiative. Read the rest of this entry »

Leading Home Care Economist Refutes Assumptions of LAO’S IHSS Study

Finds Leg Analyst Sharply Underestimates Costs of IHSS Reductions –
New London, CONNECTICUT — In a new study released April 28, 2010, one of the nation’s leading experts in the economics of long term care services for the elderly and people with disabilities sharply refutes findings of a January 21, 2010 report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) on the fiscal impact on the state and counties of the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program for seniors and people with disabilities. Read the rest of this entry »