Portland officials spoke out against proposed state budget cuts Wednesday, saying the changes could push more people into the city's emergency shelters, leave thousands unable to afford medicine and force a health clinic for the homeless to close its doors. City officials said they are especially concerned about proposals to restrict access to MaineCare health insurance and to no longer provide aid through General Assistance, a program paid for by the state and communities, to people who qualify for federal cash assistance.
House rejects farm subsidy cuts WASHINGTON -- The Republican-led House voted to slash domestic and international food aid Thursday while rejecting cuts to farm subsidies. A spending bill to fund the nation's food and farm programs would cut the Women, Infants and Children program, which offers food aid and educational support for low-income mothers and their children, by $868 million, or 13 percent. An international food assistance program that provides emergency aid and agricultural development would drop by more than $450 million, one-third of the program's budget. The legislation passed 217-203. The bill would trim the Food and Drug Administration's $2.5 billion budget by almost 12 percent, straining the agency's ability to implement a new food safety law signed by President Barack...
Recent legislation has affected the populations served by the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) disability programs. The Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 mandated that persons whose disability determination was based on drug addiction or alcoholism be removed from the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance rolls. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (later amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997) tightened the SSI eligibility criteria for children and converted the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into a block grant, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. This article describes the design of three related studies evaluating the direct and indirect effects of these policy changes...
The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (eFMAP), and disaster-recovery FMAP adjustments for Fiscal Year 2013 have been calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013. This notice announces the calculated FMAP and eFMAP rates that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will use in determining the amount of federal matching for state medical assistance (Medicaid) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expenditures, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Contingency Funds, Child Support Enforcement collections, Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund, Foster Care Title...
New National Survey Uncovers Patients' Need for More Lymphoma Resources to Effectively Participate in Their Care NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Cancer Support Community (CSC), uniting The Wellness Community and Gilda's Club Worldwide, announced today the launch of Framing Life With Lymphoma, a new educational program designed to enhance lymphoma patient and physician communication. This research-based program, led by the CSC with support from Cephalon, Inc., provides lymphoma patients with easy-to-use tip sheets outlining ways to approach each conversation with their healthcare team across the course of their cancer journey - from diagnosis through treatment. The patient tip sheets and other campaign information were created through input from an expert Steering Commi...
The emergency food stamp assistance handed out after Hurricane Irene was tailor-made for fraud. The federal program administered through the state is intended to rush through aid and then rely on the state to audit for fraud later. Under the Disaster Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, called D-SNAP, 74,230 Connecticut residents got extra aid ranging from $200 to $1,202, depending on family size, for food lost as a result of the hurricane. Among those receiving the aid were 800 employees of the state, including workers in the Department of Social Services, which administered the D-SNAP program.
It is painfully obvious to Congress, the Administration, foreign aid experts, and non-government organizations alike, that our foreign assistance program is fragmented and broken and in critical need of overhaul.
WASHINGTON -- Launched during a time of peace to aid departing service members, the Transition Assistance Program is failing war veterans and their families, according to Pentagon reports obtained by the Tribune-Review. Called "TAP," it began in 1989 as a federal pilot program run by the Department of Defense, Labor Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For most of the 140,000 troops who annually must take the course, it's three days of classes on topics ranging from the new GI Bill for college to special initiatives that help wounded personnel and their families.
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