New York needs to invest in people with disabilities!

Within their One-House Budget Bills we are calling on the NYS Legislature for:

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. Move the responsibility and authority for rate setting back to OPWDD to ensure appropriate and timely funding