Within their One-House Budget Bills we are calling on the NYS Legislature for:
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- Investment in I/DD services through a 7.8% Medicaid rate increase to proactively invest in non-profit provider agencies. A 2.1% Targeted Inflationary Increase (TII) was included within the Governor’s Executive Budget, but we need legislators to make up the difference.
- Creation of a Wage Commission to examine the roles and responsibilities of human service workers and establish fair, sustainable compensation standards commensurate with that work.
- Move the responsibility and authority for rate setting back to OPWDD to ensure appropriate and timely funding
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