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Surrey Budget Day
14 hours ago ago from Will Forster
Surrey County Council today gave the rubber stamp to the next financial year's budget. I, along with the Lib Dems voted against the budget since it would lead to massive cuts to essential services despite yet another above inflation council tax rise.The Conservatives dominate County Hall with 7 out of 10 of the councillors, so their budget was passed - but this budget of £680.4 million with a council tax rise of 2.5%, proposes cuts that are ...
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19 hours ago ago from Wichitopekington
Comcare, Sedgwick County's mental health agency, will see $4.5 million in state budget cuts this year, director Marilyn Cook told commissioners this morning. Included in the cuts are a 10 percent reduction in Medicaid rates, reduced mental health grants and elimination of family-centered care grants. It is significant, Cook said of the funding cuts. The Sedgwick County Development Disability Organization also will see a 10 ...
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7 hours ago ago from CasinoReign.com - Gambling & Casino News
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada officials Tuesday outlined drastic cuts state's Medicaid program include plans ration adult diapers, eliminate denture hearing-aid programs, force personal care assistants their own disposable gloves. State lawmakers learned of cuts at a committee hearing in which health officials said adult day care programs, vision services outpatient programs for people brain trauma also cut slash $109 million from Medicaid ...
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14 hours ago ago from 59 Carden St.
The newly-reformed Wellington County Social Services Board -- formerly the Joint Social Services Committee -- will hold its first meeting without City input Wednesday at noon. Besides changing the name, the County has also decided to move the meeting from the somewhat-neutral basement of the social services building on Wyndham Street into the County's administration centre a block over on Woolwich Street. I'm curious whether any ...
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Nevada Budget Crisis: State Considers Medicaid Diaper Rations, No Gloves For Caretakers
12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
CARSON CITY, Nev. Adult diapers could be rationed and personal care assistants may need to buy their own disposable gloves to help cut $109 million from the state's Medicaid costs, state lawmakers were told Tuesday. Other Medicaid services being targeted in the effort to close Nevada's $881 million budget deficit include ending so-called "optional services," including adult vision, hearing and denture programs. Adult day care programs also ...
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15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger On Feb. 1, President Barack Obama unveiled his 2011 budget proposal. While conservative pundits reacted with predictable, yet preposterous, wailing about the federal budget deficit, the short-term U.S. budget outlook is just fine. If anything, Obama's budget doesn't dedicate nearly enough funding to create jobs. As John Nichols notes for The Nation , Obama budgets just $100 billion for jobs in ...
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