March 28, 2025
The Boost News
SS backs off plan to cut phone services for disabled people, Palisades Mall has a new sensory space, and more developmental disability news for week ending March 28, 2025.
NEW YORK
State workers asked to volunteer to assist with CDPAP transition (Times Union)
Fraudster-Linked Company Set to Begin Massive Insurance Contract for Home Health Workers (NYS Focus)
Questions loom as New York state gives 30-day grace period for Medicaid home care transition (Spectrum News)
Department of Health and PPL: CDPAP transition issues are not our fault (City & State)
OPINION: State Will Continue to Protect CDPAP Consumers and Workers After April 1 Transition Deadline (Empire State)
Poughkeepsie Police Can Now Track Wandering Elderly, Autistic It’s part of Project Lifesaver. (Hudson Valley Post)
Sensory Room offers space to decompress at giant Palisades Center mall (lohud.com)
OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK
Texas Representative refers to Greg Abbott, who is disabled, as ‘Governor Hot Wheels’ (Washington Post)
Developmental disability community ‘tentatively exuberant’ at restored funding (Maryland Matters)
Ohio families fight for control over care of developmentally disabled amid ongoing battles (Local12.com)
MEDICAID
How Medicaid and SNAP cuts could affect your state New York could lose 87,000 jobs, a new estimate finds. (Axios)
Medicaid Cuts Could Cost States Billions in Tax Revenue and a Million Jobs (Governing.com)
Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much (KFF)
New Survey Finds Medicaid Cuts Would Devastate School Staffing and Services (The 74 Million)
OPINION: It’s time to block-grant Medicaid (STAT)
FEDERAL SPENDING
Disability Advocates Worry New Federal Spending Plan Will Lead To More Programs Being Slashed (Disability Scoop: Paywall)
HHS
Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring (AP)
Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts David Geier doesn’t have a medical degree and was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license. (STAT)
SSA
Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services for disabled people (AP)
Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down (Washington Post)
ADA
The ADA Is Turning 35—And It’s in Trump’s Crosshairs A Q&A with Tony Coelho, the Americans with Disabilities Act’s main author. (Mother Jones)
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Special ed experts worry about students with disabilities post-Education Department (USA Today)
Exec Order to Shut Down Dept. of Ed Will Have Devastating Impact on Students with Disabilities (Natl. Disability Rights Network)
VOTING RIGHTS
Trump signs sweeping executive order attempting a major overhaul of American elections (NBC News)
AUTISM
OPINION: Autism’s Cult of Redemption: What I learned in the alt-medicine & anti-vaxxers movement (John Summers)
OPINION: We need to stop diagnosing each other with autism and ADHD (The Independent)
ENTERTAINMENT
The Stimming Pool review – film-makers on the autistic spectrum dive ingeniously into the uncanny (The Guardian)