BLOOMFIELD, Conn. – State Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr. visited Cigna headquarters Thursday to celebrate the company's commitment to hiring people with disabilities.The Democrat from Branford also denounced the recent round of emergency cuts to the state budget ordered by Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy — including services that help people with disabilities stay in the workforce."These are the very programs that people with disabilities rely on to get training so they can seek active employment," Kennedy said. "To me, this is a misguided type of way to balance the state budget.''
Showing posts with label state budget cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state budget cuts. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tenn. Budget Cuts Impact Families
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Major state budget cuts will soon impact hundreds of Tennessee families who care for disabled loved ones.
Some believe that the cuts are so severe that it will greatly impact the quality of care for patients who depend on around the clock care.
The Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is cutting $47 million from its budget. These cuts will impact around 700 families.
Nursing services will be limited to 12 hours a day, and 215 hours a month is the new limit for personal assistance services.
The Tennessee Disability Coalition believes when you cut quality of care that will send more people to the hospital, or to institutionalized care which ends up costing the state more money.
On any one day, five health care professionals stop by Linda Gill's home. A brain injury as a toddler has caused lasting brain damage into her senior years.
"Initially we are going to lose one of the caregivers, for each shift," said caretaker Claudette Reed.
The 24-7 care that surrounds Linda is about to unravel because of state budget cuts; the hours that a personal assistant spends is about to change.
"Eventually we are going to be cut to 50 hours, which essentially means there will be no one to care for her, except for family, and there's not any family left," Reed said.
Some believe that the cuts are so severe that it will greatly impact the quality of care for patients who depend on around the clock care.
The Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is cutting $47 million from its budget. These cuts will impact around 700 families.
Nursing services will be limited to 12 hours a day, and 215 hours a month is the new limit for personal assistance services.
The Tennessee Disability Coalition believes when you cut quality of care that will send more people to the hospital, or to institutionalized care which ends up costing the state more money.
On any one day, five health care professionals stop by Linda Gill's home. A brain injury as a toddler has caused lasting brain damage into her senior years.
"Initially we are going to lose one of the caregivers, for each shift," said caretaker Claudette Reed.
The 24-7 care that surrounds Linda is about to unravel because of state budget cuts; the hours that a personal assistant spends is about to change.
"Eventually we are going to be cut to 50 hours, which essentially means there will be no one to care for her, except for family, and there's not any family left," Reed said.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Editorial: A Pretty Good Budget?
It's disgraceful that the Providence Journal does not speak out about the many citizens impacted by the proposed budget--cuts to services for individuals with disabilities are not "sad but necessary," as many protesting the state capitol today will attest.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - It has been another brutal year to do a state budget, but the plan likely to be approved today by the Rhode Island House is a pretty reasonable piece of hard work.
First, while the package would extend the state sales tax to a few items and services, the House tax package looks little like Governor Chafee’s proposed two-tier system, to be applied to many items and services, and whose costs and time-consuming complexity would hurt job creation as the state struggles to get out of its long slump.
Meanwhile, to avoid big tax increases, there are sad but necessary cuts to social-service, housing, mass transit (perhaps a false economy) and some other programs in the House budget. We hope that at least some of those funds can be restored in coming years, assuming that the budgets that do so are fiscally prudent.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - It has been another brutal year to do a state budget, but the plan likely to be approved today by the Rhode Island House is a pretty reasonable piece of hard work.
First, while the package would extend the state sales tax to a few items and services, the House tax package looks little like Governor Chafee’s proposed two-tier system, to be applied to many items and services, and whose costs and time-consuming complexity would hurt job creation as the state struggles to get out of its long slump.
Meanwhile, to avoid big tax increases, there are sad but necessary cuts to social-service, housing, mass transit (perhaps a false economy) and some other programs in the House budget. We hope that at least some of those funds can be restored in coming years, assuming that the budgets that do so are fiscally prudent.
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