Apply for the Housing and Companies Partnership Accelerator Program
The U.S. Departments of Housing and City Growth (HUD) and Well being and Human Companies (HHS) are accepting purposes for the second cohort of the Housing and Companies Partnership Accelerator Program (HSPA).
HSPA gives technical help and peer-to-peer studying alternatives for states implementing Medicaid-funded housing helps to cut back homelessness for older adults and other people with disabilities.
Taking part states should type an interdisciplinary crew of representatives from state and native companies throughout the well being, housing, ageing, and incapacity sectors to hitch a 12-month studying collaborative. Purposes are as a result of Administration for Group Residing (ACL) by 10am EST on December 20, 2024.
New Federal Steerage Clarifies Medicare Benefit Playing cards Do Not Have an effect on SNAP Eligibility
Final week, the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) issued new steerage to state SNAP companies clarifying that they need to not rely Medicare Benefit supplemental advantages as earnings for the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP).
Medicare Benefit organizations typically provide supplemental advantages which are administered utilizing a flex card, debit card, or money card. Justice in Growing older and different advocates raised considerations that receipt of Medicare Benefit flex playing cards might trigger older adults to wrongfully lose SNAP eligibility and advocated for this new USDA steerage.
This SNAP steerage builds on related language concerning Supplemental Safety Revenue and up to date clarification from the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies (CMS) that “the [Medicare Advantage] debit card itself shouldn’t be the supplemental profit, slightly, it’s the mechanism by which the MA group administers and pays for the lined supplemental profit.”
Justice in Growing older Recordsdata Amicus Briefs on Gender Id Discrimination and Part 1557
Justice in Growing older, together with the Heart for Medicare Advocacy, SAGE, and professional bono counsel Stinson LLP, not too long ago filed amicus briefs in two Fifth Circuit circumstances that would hurt transgender older adults’ entry to well being care.
In these circumstances, a variety of states are difficult the inclusion of gender identification discrimination as a type of intercourse discrimination within the remaining Part 1557 rule of the Reasonably priced Care Act.
Our briefs urge the Fifth Circuit to contemplate the discriminatory limitations that transgender older adults will face in accessing well being and long-term care if the decrease courts’ preliminary injunctions (barring the inclusion of gender identification discrimination) are upheld.
Learn our amicus briefs for State of Texas, et al. v. Becerra and State of Tennessee, et al. v. Becerra.
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New from the Nationwide Heart on Legislation & Elder Rights (NCLER)
On December 18th, NCLER will host a coaching on Life Planning Methods for Supporting the Wants of Older Adults and Their Households. Life planning instruments embrace wills, trusts, well being care proxies, dwelling wills, switch on loss of life deeds, and different will-substitutes. These instruments promote self-determination and be sure that the needs of older adults are affirmed even after their loss of life. This coaching will talk about how life planning providers can profit older adults and how one can take a person-centered method to conventional property planning and preservation of generational wealth. Study extra and register.
Learn NCLER’s newest concern transient, How Can Authorized Help Suppliers Higher Meet the Wants of Tribal Elders? This concern transient focuses on Tribal elders, offering an summary of probably the most urgent and distinctive authorized points they face, in addition to promising practices for reaching and serving them. Learn the problem transient.
