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Right here’s what we’re watching in Washington:
Signal-On Alternative to Help FY26 Funding for HUD Applications
Congress is within the means of negotiating spending payments for Fiscal Yr (FY) 2026, together with spending payments for U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD) housing packages. Present proposals within the Home and Senate embody cuts to federal rental help that may end in fewer households being served and extra folks susceptible to homelessness. Proposed cuts to the Housing Alternative Voucher program, the nation’s largest federal rental help program, would have an effect on as much as an estimated 71,000 older adults age 62 and over.
Organizations can urge Congress to completely fund all HUD housing packages by signing on to this letter by the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Activity Drive, which Justice in Getting old co-chairs.
The deadline for sign-ons is Wednesday, August 28, 2025.
New Documentary Highlights Significance of Social Safety
The Nationwide Committee to Protect Social Safety & Medicare just lately launched a brand new documentary in honor of Social Safety’s 90th anniversary. “Social Safety: 90 Years Sturdy” highlights the historical past of Social Safety and its position as a lifeline for older adults, folks with disabilities, and their households. Justice in Getting old’s Managing Director of Financial Safety, Tracey Gronniger, is featured within the movie.
Watch the documentary, and browse extra about why Social Safety is significant to People nationwide.
H.R. 1 Will Take Medicaid, Medicare, and Reasonably priced Care Act Protection from Hundreds of thousands
This week, the Congressional Finances Workplace (CBO) launched remaining estimates of how many individuals are anticipated to turn into uninsured as a direct results of the finances reconciliation act (H.R. 1) that was signed into legislation in July.
CBO estimates that 10 million folks will turn into uninsured by 2034, together with 7.5 million individuals who may have Medicaid protection taken away. CBO estimates Medicaid work necessities will finish protection for five.3 million folks, together with many older adults ages 50 to 64 and caregivers. The legislation’s cuts to Medicaid funding and rollback of eligibility and enrollment guidelines will even terminate Medicaid protection and Medicare cost-sharing for folks age 65 and older.
The CBO expects that H.R. 1’s restrictions on Medicare eligibility will take protection from 100,000 lawfully current immigrants who’ve paid into Medicare for a minimum of a decade. The legislation additionally ends Medicaid protection for an additional 100,000 lawfully current immigrants and blocks 900,000 lawfully current immigrants from eligibility for premium tax credit within the Reasonably priced Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces.
As well as, CBO beforehand estimated over 4 million people are anticipated to turn into uninsured subsequent 12 months as a result of Congress didn’t prolong the improved premium tax credit that make Market protection inexpensive. When persons are purchasing for 2026 protection this fall, they are going to see a greater than 75% out-of-pocket premium price enhance on common. Enrollees with revenue beneath $25,000 will see the steepest will increase, in addition to older adults ages 50 to 64.
Get extra info on how H.R. 1 impacts older adults’ entry to well being and long-term care in Justice in Getting old’s new explainer and timeline and webinar recording.
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