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Right here’s what we’re watching in Washington:
Urge Congress to Cease Dangerous Immigration Enforcement and Prioritize Well being Care and Packages for Older Adults
Final week, annual appropriations for the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) ended as Congress and the White Home haven’t reached an settlement on whether or not to make adjustments and cuts to immigration enforcement.
Nevertheless, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Safety (CBP) are persevering with their aggressive actions with billions of {dollars} in funding from the finances reconciliation act (H.R. 1) handed final July. These actions damage older adults, each immigrants and non-immigrants.
Justice in Getting old invitations nationwide and state growing old advocacy organizations and allies to signal a letter urging Congress to think about the hurt of the administration’s aggressive immigration insurance policies on the flexibility of all older adults to age with dignity of their communities.
We’re calling on Congress to enact enough safeguards in immigration enforcement and restore funding for well being care and different applications that assist older adults and their households meet their primary wants. Use this type to signal on by Tuesday, February twenty fourth.
Study extra about our advocacy and points older immigrants are dealing with. Use this useful resource hub to help your advocacy to demand Congress maintain ICE and CBP accountable and redirect funding to help our communities.
HUD Releases Proposed Rule on Blended-Standing Households
As we speak, HUD printed a proposed rule that may prohibit mixed-status households from dwelling collectively in HUD-assisted housing.
This proposal would additionally impose new documentation necessities for older adults age 62 and over to confirm their citizenship and immigration standing.
Feedback on HUD’s proposed rule are due on April 21, 2026. Justice in Getting old will quickly share extra assets on the proposed rule, together with template feedback.
Senators Introduce Federal Laws to Set up Nursing Dwelling Staffing Requirements
This week, seven Democratic senators launched the Nurses Belong in Nursing Properties Act to determine minimal staffing requirements for nursing properties. Underneath the laws, nursing properties could be required to have at the least one registered nurse on obligation always, and to offer general nursing companies staffing (together with each nurses and nurse aides) at a degree of at the least 3.5 hours per resident per day.
In essence, the laws would re-establish staffing requirements set by federal rules in 2024. These regulatory requirements, nevertheless, are not in impact – they had been enjoined by federal district courts in Texas and Iowa, delayed till 2034 by H.R. 1, after which rescinded by the federal authorities efficient February 2, 2026. Justice in Getting old submitted feedback opposing the rescission.
For advocacy functions, remember that present federal legislation continues to require nursing properties to keep up “adequate nursing workers with the suitable competencies and expertise units to offer nursing and associated companies to guarantee resident security and attain or keep the very best practicable bodily, psychological, and psychosocial well-being of every resident.”
Additionally, the current rescission left in place two necessary provisions of the 2024 rules: detailed procedures for a nursing residence’s evaluation of its capability to offer wanted companies, and a requirement that state Medicaid companies report the share of Medicaid nursing residence reimbursement used to compensate nursing residence direct-care and help workers.
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