Patrick Delivering on Promise Will End 27 Year Wait

Inflation Calculator Shows Total CPI Rise
from January 1988 to August 2013 has been 102.14%

While EOHHS Commonwealth Rate Increases to Residential Disability Providers from January 1988 to March 31, 2014 will have been 0%*

Source: Consumer Price Index published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Consumer Price Index Rise since 1987, the last year of rate system for the disability provider system:
source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Date	US Inflation Rate	Adjustments provided to Base Disability Residential Contracts*
Aug 1, 2013	1.52%	0%
Jan 1, 2013	1.59%	0%
Jan 1, 2012	2.93%	0%
Jan 1, 2011	1.63%	0%
Jan 1, 2010	2.63%	0%
Jan 1, 2009	0.03%	0%
Jan 1, 2008	4.28%	0%
Jan 1, 2007	2.08%	0%
Jan 1, 2006	3.99%	0%
Jan 1, 2005	2.97%	0%
Jan 1, 2004	1.93%	0%
Jan 1, 2003	2.60%	0%
Jan 1, 2002	1.14%	0%
Jan 1, 2001	3.73%	0%
Jan 1, 2000	2.74%	0%
Jan 1, 1999	1.67%	0%
Jan 1, 1998	1.57%	0%
Jan 1, 1997	3.04%	0%
Jan 1, 1996	2.73%	0%
Jan 1, 1995	2.80%	0%
Jan 1, 1994	2.52%	0%
Jan 1, 1993	3.26%	0%
Jan 1, 1992	2.60%	0%
Jan 1, 1991	5.65%	0%
Jan 1, 1990	5.20%	0%
Jan 1, 1989	4.67%	0%
Jan 1, 1988	4.05%	0%

1988-2013	102.14%	0%

*While Base Contracts have not increased on annual basis; on limited occasions, the Legislature approved pass through Salary Reserve Increases, or one time Salary Bonuses for the most underpaid workers earning less than $40,000 per year. Other operating costs excluded.

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Chapter 257, Signed in 2008, This Year Finally Reaches Community Residential Programs, After 27 Year Rate Freeze

Rate Formula Gone Since 1987

People who provide supports and services for people with disabilities are looking with anticipation to Governor Deval Patrick as he and his team begin assembling the Administration's FY 15 House One Budget Recommendation.

On April 1, 2014, the Patrick Administration will begin to honor the state law, passed unanimously by the House & Senate, encouraged and signed by Governor Deval Patrick, that requires a state rate system be put in place to set fair and adequate rates for programs administered by the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

For nearly five years, since the signing of Chapter 257, the state has worked slowly and cautiously through it's Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) to set fair and adequate rates that will finally alany provilow mders to raise direct support professional salaries; and place agencies on a sound financial footing after over a quarter century of inadequate resources to address staff training, utility costs, insurance increases, cost of food increases, etc.

As the fall progresses, key Administration leaders, including EOHHS Secretary John Polanowicz and ANF Secretary Glen Shor will be tasked with assisting the Governor in delivering on this signature piece of his record and helping him keep his promise to the people of the Commonwealth, and in particular the disability community.

We wait and watch in anticipation with optimism and hope for how the lives of people with disabilities and the people who work in this field will be improved. For the thousands who have worked for years in this field hoping for improved wages it will be a great moment of anticipation.

Key Players in Building Patrick's Budget & Keeping The Administration's Promise

Key Patrick Administration who will be building Governor Deval Patrick's FY 15 Budget that will keep the Governor's Promises and the State's Legal Obligations include:

Elin Howe, DDS Commissioner, who has worked with the Commonwealth's Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) to build rates that conform to the legal requirements and specifications of Chapter 257. Howe is expected to submit those rates as part of DDS's Maintenance Budget Projection and Request to EOHHS leadership.

John Polanowicz, Executive Office of Health & Human Secretary Polanowicz

Services Secretary, who has given his word, on behalf of the Governor that DDS & MRC ALTR (Residential) rates will increase on April 1, 2014 and be fully funded in FY 15's House One Budget.

Glen Shor, Executive Office of Administration and Finance, who is required to build the Governor's final budget recommendation and prepare the budget to be transmitted to the Legislature. The Governor's Budget Recommendation, known as House One, is expected to be released in the third week of January.

Disability Providers look with excitement to two critical

upcoming dates: January 29, 2014, when Governor Patrick is expected to release his Budget, containing his promise and legal obligation to meet the requirements of Chapter 257; and April 1, 2014, when the State begins paying the rates set by CHIA to reflect state law. Once this happens, providers will be expected to raise Direct Support Professional Salaries which have been suffering for the last 27 years from the starvation of provider rates in Massachusetts.