The House Committee on Financial Services held a March 10 hearing on, “Justice for All: Achieving Racial Equity Through Fair Access to Housing and Financial Services.”
The American Rescue Plan is on track to become law by the end of the week.
The Senate updated and passed the American Rescue Plan on March 6, and the House passed the updated bill on March 10. The President is expected to sign the bill into law by March 12.
Submitted by ddailey on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 11:43
March 3, 2021, Washington, DC—In the wake of COVID legislation passed by the House of Representatives this weekend that lacks desperately needed support for older Americans, a key aging services leader called on Senators to step up support for and prioritize older adults and care providers who have been most vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Contact Susan Donley
sdonley@leadingage.org
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We represent more than 5,000 aging-focused organizations that touch millions of lives every day. Alongside our members and 38 state partners, we address critical issues by blending applied research, advocacy, education, and community-building. We bring together the most inventive minds in our field to support older adults as they age wherever they call home. We make America a better place to grow old. For more information: www.leadingage.org
Our approach begins with providers—thousands of people working at life plan communities, assisted living, memory care, nursing homes, adult day centers, PACE programs, home care and hospice agencies, and other settings on the front lines of care and services. We host LeadingAge Town Hall Conversations across the country, listening to members’ policy challenges and considering solutions together. These sessions, held virtually in 2020, were deeply colored by the battle aging services providers are waging with COVID.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced at the outset of the Biden Administration that they anticipate extending the public health emergency (PHE) through at least the end of 2021. They said they would give 60 days’ notice prior to the termination of the PHE – this does NOT mean that providers have 60 days post the end of the PHE before the waivers end. That is a point of some confusion.
The Medicare Part B Calculator is updated with calendar year 2021 rates, including the changes due to the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 which came after the publication of the final rule. You can download the excel tool here.
A new report, Low Income Older Adults Face Unaffordable Rents, Driving Housing Instability and Homelessness, sheds light on the crisis that is the nation’s lack of affordable housing for older adults.
In January, the national organization Justice in Aging launched a new project focused on Housing & Homelessness to address systemic barriers to housing for older adults with low incomes. Justice in Aging partnered with the National Low Income Housing Coalition to produce the report.
The reconciliation process instructs 12 House Committees to write proposals that would provide $1.9 trillion in budgetary relief that fulfills the provisions of President Biden’s COVID-19 American Rescue Plan. After 13 hours of debate the House Education and Labor Committee approved the committee’s provisions in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget reconciliation during a February 9 markup.
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