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President Releases Detailed Budget
Request for FY 2010.
Medicaid Real Choice Systems Change Grants. A decrease of $2.5 million is proposed for these grants which are used by states to assist in designing and implementing improvements to community-based support systems. The total for FY 2010 would be $2.5 million. However, another section of the budget documents indicates that the grants will be cut by $2 million from $5 million (rather than $2.5 million). Medicaid Money Follows the Person Grants. The Budget Request seeks an increase from $359 million in FY 2009 to $474 million in FY 2010, an increase of $115 million. Money Follows the Person provides the states with an increased match for moving individuals out of institutions and into community-based settings. Medicaid Institutional Alternatives. A 4.19 percent growth projection is made in the Budget Request for the use of the “institutional alternatives” - personal care, home health services, and home and community-based services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. $142.0 million – a $4 million increase over FY 2009 level – is requested for the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). The mission of the NCBDDD is to promote the health of babies, children and adults and enhance the potential for full, productive living. One of the Center's primary goals is to promote health and wellness among people with disabilities of all ages. National Institutes of Health. $1.314 billion – a $19 million increase over FY 2009 – is requested for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Child Health and Human Development. The Institute conducts and supports research on all stages of human development, from preconception to adulthood, to better understand the health of children, adults, families, and communities. Developmental Disabilities Act. The Budget Resolution proposes level funding for DD Act programs. DD councils would maintain funding of $74 million, Protection and Advocacy systems would stay at $40 million, and University Centers would hold at $38 million. Similarly, Projects of National Significance funding would remain unchanged at $14 million. Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. The Administration requested that the autism and other developmental disability program at the Health Resources and Services Administration received a $6 million increase. These programs support early detection and intervention, training and research programs. Respite. The Lifespan Respite Care Act received $2.5 million in the President’s Budget Request, the same amount it received when it was first funded in FY 09. These respite systems are to provide easy access to an array of affordable, quality respite services; ensure flexibility to meet diverse needs; and assist with locating, training, and paying respite providers. Title XX Social Services Block Grant. This program receives level funding at $1.7 billion in the President’s Budget Request. The SSBG funds states to help them achieve a wide range of social policy goals, which include preventing child abuse, increasing the availability of child care, and providing community-based care for the elderly and persons with disabilities. Maternal & Child Health Block Grant. This program receives level funding at $662 million in the President’s Budget Request. The Maternal and Child Health Block Grant’s purpose is to improve the health of all mothers, children, and their families, especially for those with low-incomes or limited availability of care and those with special health care needs.
Department of Education
Vocational Rehabilitation Title I State Grant Program. This program received a $111 million (3.7%) cost of living increase for FY 2010, from $2.974 billion to $3.085 billion. The majority of the other VR programs would receive level funding. Supported Employment State Grants. Funding for this program is frozen at the FY 2009 level of $29 million. The National Institute for Disability & Rehabilitation Research (NIDDR). NIDRR funding increased by $3 million in the President’s Budget Request.
Department of Labor
(DOL)
Work Incentives Grants. These grants are slated for elimination in the President’s Budget Request. They currently support the disability program navigators which work with the workforce One-Stop centers. National Programs. The Department
of Labor’s National Programs received $65 million in the President’s FY
2010 budget; this is an increase of $11 million from FY 2009.
National Programs provide programmatic support to Workforce Investment Act
(WIA) based activities and nationally administered programs that serve
segments in the population that are underserved in the labor
force. The program focuses on projects that demonstrate and evaluate
transitional job models while combining short-term subsidized or supported
employment with intensive case
management. Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program(tenant based assistance). The Budget Request contains sufficient funding to renew all current vouchers and allows public housing agencies (PHAs) to lift the current HUD cap which prevents them from funding vouchers over a specified limit (which varies amongst PHAs). The change on the current “cap” policy is projected to allow PHAs to make approximately 100,000 new housing vouchers available in FY 2010. The HUD proposal does not include funding for Section 8 vouchers targeted to any specific population (e.g. non-elderly persons with disabilities or veterans). The DPC will urge the House and Senate HUD Appropriations Subcommittees to target a significant portion of the new voucher funding to non-elderly persons with disabilities. National Affordable Housing Trust Fund: $1 billion is requested for first time funding to finance the development of affordable housing for extremely low-income people, including Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries with disabilities. Community Development Block Grants (CDBG): $4.45 billion is requested, a $550 million increase over the FY 2009 level. HOME Investment Partnership Program: $1.825 billion is requested, the same as FY 2009 level. Office on Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control: $140 million is requested, the same as the FY 2009 funding. Office of Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity: $72
million is requested, a $19 million increase over FY 2009 level.
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Department of Justice (DOJ)
All Disability Programs This table compares the Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations for key disability programs with the President’s request for Fiscal Year 2010 funding. |
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