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Homecare Advocates Urge the California Legislature: Stand up to Governor
Date:1/8/2010

ly reduce services for more than 100,000 IHSS recipients.

In the July budget vote, 20 Democratic State Senators and 45 Democratic Assembly Members voted for the IHSS cuts. In addition, 10 Democratic Senators and 12 Democratic Assembly voted to endorse the Governor's multi-million-dollar campaign to demonize home care workers and consumers by alleging widespread fraud in IHSS, despite the absence of any proof that widespread fraud exists in the program.

IHSS supporters today vowed to fight the Governor's budget cut proposals in the legislature, where legislators from both parties have recognized the need to help the elderly and disabled live independently in our communities. New Assembly Speaker John Perez has pledged that the "Big 5" will not dictate this year's budget.

The 1999 U.S. Supreme Court Olmstead decision affirmed the responsibility of states to ensure that people with disabilities, including seniors and children, receive care in the most integrated setting.

This Governor acknowledges that IHSS keeps people out of more costly and less desirable out-of-home placement in nursing homes or other institutions, but seeks to destroy it anyway.

The following are reactions to the proposed cuts by IHSS consumers and advocates:

"The seniors I represent paid taxes their whole lives, believing that when they needed help they would have it. Even a small amount of IHSS can keep them safely at home; now the Governor is breaking their trust. It is time for all legislators, especially Democratic lawmakers, to be held accountable. They must turn down the Governor's mean-spirited and hypocritical proposal," said Gary Passmore of the Congress of California Seniors.

"Last year, legislators were given a 'take-it-or-leave-it' budget dictated by Senate and Assembly leaders and the Governor. This year's budget must be debated and decided in a process which allows all members of the Legi
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