ATTENTION: Action Alert!
YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED:
THERE IS NO FUNDING FOR HCBS IN THE HEALS ACT!
OUR SERVICES AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND SENIORS THAT WANT TO LEAVE THE INSTITUTIONS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LEAVE WITHOUT
FUNDING FOR HCBS!
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Call and/or email Senator Cornyn and Senator Cruz and staff and tell them:
Senator Cruz: Central Texas 512-916-5834; D.C. 202-224-5922
Click the link to email Cruz: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=form&id=16
Joel_Heimbach@cruz.senate.gov
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Senator Cornyn: Austin 512-469-6034; D.C. 202-224-2934
Click the link to email Cornyn: https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact
Jeffrey_Last@cornyn.senate.gov
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We need FUNDING in the New Relief bill for:
1. *Home and community-based services (HCBS)
*Tell them your personal story of the importance of HCBS also for our brothers and sisters that are relying on these services in order to get out of the death camps, nursing home and other institutions!
2. Hazard pay for Attendants. Protect Attendants from COVID-19
3. PPE absolutely necessary (mask and gloves) for essential workers, which includes personal attendants in the community
*SUPPORT – – HEROES ACT HR.6800: which supports a greater Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP)
*SUPPORT- – Section 202 of S.3544 that supports additional funding for Home and Community-Based Services and hazard pay for Attendants.
4. *SUPPORT- – S3740 and HR9651 COVID-19 Recovery for Seniors and People with Disabilities Act. Delay the implementation of the Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) requirement for 6 months (after the end of the national public health emergency) in order to eliminate barriers to care in the home and keep people out of congregate settings. We all know that people with disabilities and Seniors are dying in the institutions due to the corona virus. Personal care services workers are already in a crisis shortage. By adding on EVV requirements, personal care service workers refuse to do this work. The law requires location information. WE refuse tracking them by GPS or biometrics.
*Tell them to help our people.
At the top is an attachment of a template of a letter you can email to the Senators as well as the Representatives asking for their support for the delay of EVV.
ADAPT is working with NCIL(National Council on Independent Living). Below is the link to the NCIL Alert from EVV section of website https://ncil.org/about-the-ncil-electronic-visit-verification-task-force/electronic-visit-verification-evv-call-to-action/
Thank you for taking action TODAY! Our lives depend on it!
Free Our People! Community Attendants Equal Independence!
Nancy Crowther Cathy Cranston
ADAPT/PACT ORGANIZERS