With very little doubt, there will be significant costs to the federal and state budgets that will arise out of these suggested cuts. Most legislators are unaware of the domino effect of these suggested cuts. The Senior Community Service Employment Program helps people obtain unsubsidized employment, making them taxpaying citizens. With this program eliminated, many of these individuals will be forced to obtain assistance through more costly federal and state support programs. The Senior Corps Programs utilize volunteers to assist in many care providing settings. Without these programs, higher cost programs will have to be utilized to keep people in their own homes, or, they will have to be moved into institutional care settings with significantly higher costs associated with the care provided in these settings. Supportive Housing programs for the Elderly also keep people out of significantly higher cost support settings.
These suggested program cuts will in the long term add to the federal and state deficits that exists, because the individual care needs will still be present, but it will be much more costly to provide the support and care without these valuable programs to assist.
Your advocacy and awareness of these issues is extremely important. Thank you!!
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