Budget Shortfall Forces Big Cuts for Disabled
October 20, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn
Barbara Cullison waited eight years and eight months to get community-based care for her profoundly autistic daughter Audrey through a popular Medicaid waiver program designed to keep people with disabilities out of institutions. Now, Audrey and thousands of other Texans with disabilities fear losing their services because of budget cuts demanded of state agencies.
Advocates say the Department of Aging and Disability Services’ baseline budget request eliminates financing for more than 13,000 people — the majority of them waiting to receive so-called Medicaid waiver services in private homes, group homes or other community settings. Agency officials say an “unknown number” of people already receiving the services could lose them.
Read more here: Budget Shortfall Forces Big Cuts for Disabled — Aging and Disability Services | The Texas Tribune.
