STATE BUDGET CRISIS

How the proposed cuts will effect people with disabilities:

1.  Reduces payments to Medi-Cal providers buy 10%. 

2.  Eliminates “optional benefits” for Medi-Cal recipients including dental, acupuncture, audiology, optometry, optical, chiropractic, podiatry, psychology, speech therapy, and incontinence creams and washes. 

3.  Reduces IHSS domestic and related services by 18%. 

4.  Reduces funding for county operation of IHSS by 10%. 

5.  Suspends the state’s June 2008 and June 2009 Cola’s for SSI/SSP. 

6.  Reduces revenues related to the Mental Health Act are expected to decrease by $177.2 million statewide in the current year and by $105.2 million in the budget year impacting funds for local Mental Health Services Act programs. 

7.  Reduces Aids funding by $11 million in 2008-09. 

8.  Reduces State Support for Regional Centers by $235.1 million by extending policies intended to contain costs, such as freezing payment rates for specific program categories. 

9.  Reduces state support for Developmental Centers by $21.2 million in 2008-09. 

10.  Reduces support for Proposition 99 funds for the California Healthcare for Indigents program by $12.8 million, and for the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program, which serves individuals who are medically uninsurable, by $4.3 million.

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