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Orange County’s Home-Care Program Is Plagued With Poor Pay and Shortages

By on September 6, 2018   /   District 2, Freedom Foundation, News, Orange, UDW in the News  
Orange County’s Home-Care Program Is Plagued With Poor Pay and Shortages

Gabriel San Roman, OC Weekly, Sept. 6 2018 Monique Taloa pulls out a drawer that’s full with her sister’s prescription bottles. She sits down at the kitchen table of her Buena Park home and methodically sorts pills into a large plastic box with compartments as deep as an ice tray’s. “It is very complex because I don’t want to make a mistake,” Taloa says, her shimmering bracelets clanking on the table. “What happened with Tonya is that the doctor removed her from almost 19 medications and lowered the dosages of everything that she is on to the bare minimum because […]

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Latest anti-worker move by Trump Administration endangers long term care for hundreds of thousands of Californians

By on August 22, 2018   /   For the Press, News  
Latest anti-worker move by Trump Administration endangers long term care for hundreds of thousands of Californians

Doug Moore, Executive Director of UDW/AFSCME 3930 On July 12 the federal agency that manages Medicaid announced a proposed rule change that, if implemented, would prohibit in-home care providers who work for Medicaid-funded home care programs from choosing to having certain funds automatically deducted from their paychecks. The right-wing billionaires in favor of this new rule say it’s about preventing “dues skimming” from Medicaid payments. But these kinds of voluntary paycheck deductions—primarily health insurance payments and union dues—are common for workers of all kinds, and the only real reason to ban them is to jeopardize caregivers’ health care and bankrupt […]

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Share-of-Cost: When your client pays for IHSS partially out-of-pocket

By on August 9, 2018   /   District 1, District 2, District 3, District 4, District 5, District 6, District 8, News, Uncategorized  
Share-of-Cost: When your client pays for IHSS partially out-of-pocket

Most IHSS recipients receive their home care as part of their Medi-Cal benefits. Some people’s income is too high for them to qualify for full coverage of their hours, so they agree to pay a certain amount each month toward their Medi-Cal expenses before Medi-Cal will pay. That amount is called Share-of-Cost (SOC). The SOC may be paid to the IHSS provider, a pharmacy, doctor’s office, or when purchasing other medically necessary goods or services. How it works Your client receives an “Explanation of Share-of-Cost” letter the California Department of Social Services that tells them how much SOC they need […]

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LA Times: Targeting home healthcare workers, the Trump administration opens another front in its war on public employees

By on July 31, 2018   /   Budget & Legislation, District 1, District 2, District 3, District 4, District 5, District 6, District 8, Homecare & IHSS, News  

Los Angeles Times | JUL 30, 2018 By MICHAEL HILTZIK  Rachelle Lewis, 66, spends about 60 hours a week caring at home for her 40-year-old daughter, who suffers from schizophrenia and a learning disability. For this Lewis receives $11.18 an hour via California’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal. From that she pays a dollar a month for a union-sponsored healthcare plan. Now she’s worried that this benefit, along with others she receives via the union, might disappear. That’s because Medicaid authorities have launched a new attack on unions serving home healthcare workers like herself, aimed transparently at depriving their unions of financial […]

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ACT NOW: New Attack Threatens Your Health Insurance

By on July 24, 2018   /   Budget & Legislation, District 1, District 2, District 3, District 4, District 5, District 6, District 8, Freedom Foundation, Homecare & IHSS, News  
ACT NOW: New Attack Threatens Your Health Insurance

A proposed federal rule change will prevent IHSS providers from paying for our health insurance and union dues out of our own paychecks—meaning you could lose your health care if you don’t act now. This rule change not only jeopardizes our health care, it also threatens our ability to come together in a strong union to fight for IHSS and the clients we serve. We have less than 30 days to make our voices heard. MAKE YOURS HEARD TODAY. We have fought hard to earn health insurance through our union and we can’t let this proposed rule change threaten our care. […]

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