Legislative and Regulatory Issues
Responding to the Proposed Budget
- CDSA asks for continued federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds as well as continued enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP/federal matching funds) at the national average of 57%. Personalize your sample letter to Congress here!
- The community service system has already absorbed more than 85% of the cuts in services. We CANNOT cut more, especially in the face of no cuts to the $300,000 per bed cost of state-owned developmental centers and few if any cuts to the bureaucracies at the state and local levels. Personalize your sample letter to state legislators here!