Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger justified cuts to In-Home Support Services with claims of rampant fraud in the system. KPBS investigative reporter Amita Sharma said the actual fraud cases are much lower than the governor claims. Watch Video – Read the rest of this entry »
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December 6th, Sacramento — Governor Schwarzenegger has released his special session budget proposals (see link below) and is not suggesting any reductions to IHSS. Nick Buchen (Department of Finance) says the Administration’s guiding principle in developing the special session proposal was to reintroduce items that not adopted frm the Governor’s May Revise proposal. Because there was a negotiated agreement on IHSS for the FY 10/11 budget, the Governor did not include any additional proposals to reduce funding for IHSS in for the new special session.
Special Session Budget Proposals (PDF file)
As Gov. Schwarzenegger prepares to leave office in just over a month, the legacy he leaves behind in the area of social services can be summed up as follows: It didn’t have to be this way. Read the rest of this entry »
News10 abc MODESTO, CA – Patients and workers from the In Home Support Services industry in Stanislaus County took their complaints about fraud investigators to county supervisors Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Captiol Weekly 9/30/10 — Nearly a year after the Schwarzenegger administration awarded $26.5 million to county district attorneys to combat fraud in the state In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) system, DAs are beginning to report some results. However, it remains unclear whether the program will result in the $130 million in savings promised by the governor, numbers that would indicate nearly $5 in return for every dollar spent. Read the rest of this entry »
CDCAN DISABILITY RIGHTS REPORT #175-2010 – OCTOBER 4, 2010 – MONDAY
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 10/04/2010 10:15 AM (Pacific Time)] – The California Supreme Court, in two separate opinions released this morning, decided in favor of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on his power to order mandatory furloughs of state employees and the use of the Governor’s line-item veto power in a bill that revised the 2009-2010 State Budget in July 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
CDCAN REPORT #172-2010 September 30, 2010
Update on Governor’s Actions:
Governor Completes Action on Bills
2010 Legislative Total: 1,024 Bills Passed By Legislature and Sent To Governor
– Signed 726 – Vetoes 298 Read the rest of this entry »
California’s War on the Elderly and Disabled: A Dispatch from the Front Lines
“Backed by anxious supporters, some on crutches or in wheelchairs, nearly two-dozen passionate speakers on Tuesday railed against “Gestapo” tactics of Stanislaus County home care fraud investigators.” –Modesto Bee, Sept. 1, 2010
A flawed and mean-spirited attack by right-wing ideologues on some of California’s most vulnerable citizens has begun to sprout poisoned fruit in California’s Central Valley.
Using some of the millions of dollars distributed by the Schwarzenegger Administration in the name of fighting fraud in the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, Stanislaus County earlier this year created a Special Investigations Unit. Read the rest of this entry »
Introducing the All-New Jerry Brown Briefing Book!
Jerry Brown has spent a lifetime fighting for California’s workers. During his nearly four decades of public service, he has compiled an impressive record in support of the issues that matter most to us. And his forward-thinking vision for the future is just what California needs to get our economy back on track, create quality jobs, restore our education system and revive other vital public services that have been decimated under Governor Schwarzenegger. Read the rest of this entry »
September 8, 2010; The California Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on two cases probing the bounds of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s authority: whether he can furlough state workers by executive order, and whether he can use his line-item veto power on midyear emergency budget cuts. Read the rest of this entry »
Mary Anderson, Redwood Times, August 18, 2010
A small number of local elders and disabled residents were able to get to the Town Square on Friday, Aug. 13, to protest Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed cuts to the in-home services that make it possible for them to remain in their own homes. The protest against slashing the budget of the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) was the first in Garberville, but according to Cindy Calderon, the movement to save IHSS is statewide and protests and rallies are ongoing. Read the rest of this entry »
A legislative conference committee has voted to repeal two major IHSS cuts enacted in 2009 dealing with eligibility for services and provider wages. The committee also approved a proposal for reimbursable IHSS provider fees that would be matched by federal funds. These actions are part of the state budget package that must be approved by the Legislature and the Governor.
Frank Moore, Marissa Shaw and Nick Feldman can’t survive on their own. The East Bay trio uses wheelchairs and depend on others to care for such basic needs as using the toilet, brushing teeth, eating. They are three among the 416,000 Californians whose essential daily help at home depends on a $5.7 billion program that pays friends, relatives and professionals. Read the rest of this entry »
Please join Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg for a Live Internet Town Hall to discuss California’s State Budget
What is going on with the California State Budget? How will the budget plan recently released by Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Speaker John A. Perez affect you? Do you have questions for members of the Legislature? Then please join us for a series of live internet town hall meetings during the week of August 23rd. Read the rest of this entry »
San Luis Obispo activists including UDW members, spoke out loud and clear against proposed budget cuts impacting IHSS and other social support programs. Protesters stated that cuts are hurting the California economy – not helping.
On the 20th anniversary of the passage of the historic Americans with Disabilities Act, UDW has sharply criticized Gov. Schwarzenegger for his proposals to slash IHSS and other programs for the disabled. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, July 27 2010, California Healthline
On Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said that California might have to wait until his successor takes office in January 2011 before a budget plan passes, unless lawmakers agree to his spending proposals, the Los Angeles Times reports. Read the rest of this entry »
After camping out on a street median in South Berkeley for a month to protest proposed cuts to state disabled services, demonstrators packed up their tent city last Thursday, planning to take their cause – and their papier-mache statue of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – directly to the governor’s doorstep. Read the rest of this entry »
BERKELEY — The tent city known as ArnieVille has packed it in for now. The encampment formed in late June to protest Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed cuts to Medi-Cal and In-Home Supportive Services. Organizers had put up tents and a papier-mâché statue of Schwarzenegger on the central divider island of Adeline Street near Russell Street, but they took everything down Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
So far, only a couple health care programs are included in the Democrats’ proposal to restructure California government by moving some social services programs from state to county control. But that could change as stakeholders and the Legislature weigh in on the plan. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) offered the proposal as counterpoint to Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) budget cuts. Steinberg said his plan could reduce the size and cost of state government and help narrow a budget gap of more than $19 billion by giving counties more responsibilities, as well as more money to pay for them. Read the rest of this entry »
San Luis Obispo activists including UDW members, spoke out loud and clear against proposed budget cuts impacting IHSS and other social support programs. Protesters stated that cuts are hurting the California economy – not helping.
The Schwarzenegger administration says tough new criminal screening rules for in-home care providers have snared 531 who are ineligible to work in the program mostly because of certain criminal convictions. But Sacramento County officials say 47 of the 57 workers the state identified as ineligible to provide care here had been turned over by the district attorney’s office as having been convicted of In-Home Supportive Services fraud within the span of the last two to three years — before fingerprinting and other screening rules went into place. Read the rest of this entry »
Editorial; Marin Independent Journal, July 11, 2010
THE RECENT annual report on in-home care in Marin is just one more reminder that Marin residents’ need for such support and services is growing. In 2007, the Marin County Civil Grand Jury warned that a “silver tsunami” was headed toward Marin and that by 2030, one of every three local residents would be 65 or older. Currently, the percentage of residents 65 and older is roughly 15 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
Must the state provide in-home care for the elderly and disabled?
Your Call Radio
What’s the state’s responsibility to care for the elderly and disabled in their homes? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the potential impact of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposal to cut state spending on In-Home Supportive Services by 40%. – Listen to broadcast… Read the rest of this entry »
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