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Cut Details & Needs
§ Transitioning Youth: At first described as fully funded, the Transitioning Youth funding is actually short by about 70 students and $2 million in State general funds.
§ Service Provider Rates: The state has proposed a new rate structure that would discontinue payment for days when people with disabilities miss a day of attendance in residential, day or supported employment services. The new structure would raise rates to providers, but not enough to compensate for the loss of payment for absence days for most providers. A minimum of $5m will be needed in FY2012 to resolve this issue so providers receive the funding necessary to remain viable.
§ DDA Waiting List: Over 5300 people with developmental disabilities are languishing on DDA's Waiting List for essential community services. 1100 of them are currently in, or soon to be in, crisis.The only funding dedicated to the DDA Waiting List in the FY12 budget is through the Waiting List Equity Fund, which will only reach 40 of the 5,300 people waiting.
§ Chronic under- funding of community services: Years of budget cuts, new mandates, and lack of inflationary increases have contributed to a chronically under-funded developmental disability community service system. Services for 22,000 Marylanders with developmental disabilities face a resulting crisis, with providers closing, staff losing jobs, and people losing their long-time supports.
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