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WPCNR ALBANY ROUNDS. From Assemblyman Tom Abinanti's Press Office. March 6, 2013:
New York State Assembly member Tom Abinanti today called for restoration of $311 million to the state budget for the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) which was eliminated in the proposed Executive Budget.
“These cuts will hurt very vulnerable people who have no alternatives,” said the Westchester Assemblyman. “We must not endanger the health and safety of people with disabilities to pay for the tax cuts we gave to wealthy New Yorkers or to pay for past mistakes by New York bureaucrats who may have taken more federal reimbursements than New York was entitled to.”
The proposed Executive Budget reduces the actual 2012-13 budget for OPWDD by more than 7% and imposes an actual 6% rate cut on non-profit service providers. This follows some 9% - $350 million in rate cuts over the past several years.
The original Executive Budget proposed cutting $71 million from OPWDD’s 2012-13 $4.36 billion budget. The Governor’s thirty day amendments proposed an additional $240 million cut.
“OPWDD has been woefully underfunded,” said Abinanti. “There are waiting lists for community housing, shortages of day programs, underpaid and undertrained service providers, and constant reports of abuse and neglect.”
“New York should not have a budget that will make intolerable conditions worse,” said Abinanti.Note: Assemblyman Abinanti is the only Westchester Representative has publicly come out to criticize the Governor's cutting of the Office for Persons With Developmental Disabilities. |
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