Aging, disability and poverty control agencies gutted in HHS discounts: recordings

Meals on wheels that provide food for seniors to food are among the programs for older and disabled people who are now at risk because federal authorities have released employees who manage.

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The redundancies At the Department of Health and Human Services, the employees of the Federal Ages, Disabilities and Anti-Armuts’ larger programs made the employees of the future of these programs unsafe.

At least 40% of the employees received knowledge of discharge and many were rejected at the front door on Tuesday when they performed for the administration of life in the community or ACL, which coordinates federal politics for aging and disability. According to the former director of the agency, this is under the Biden administration Alison Barkoff, who says that she spoke to several members of her former employees.

The agency finances programs that carry out senior citizens and distribute 216 million meals per year to older and disabled people over meals on wheels.

“The programs that implement ACL improve the life of literally ten million older adults, people with disabilities and their families and caregivers,” says Barkoff, now director of a health law program at George Washington University of the Milken Institute Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. “There is no way to have these Rifs and not to influence the programs and the people who rely on them.”

Last week the notice Of the upcoming layoffs at HHS said that ACL’s responsibility would go into different parts of HHS.

But Project 2025The guideline of the Heritage Foundation for the redesign of the government had proposed to take on the work on special debt services as soon as the Ministry of Education was dismantled. It is not clear where this work is now being done.

In addition, every employee from the energy support department was released, according to two employees who lost their work on Tuesday, Andrew Germain and Vikki Pretlow. The office operates the program with low income. Or LiHeap, This helps to pay 5.9 million households with low income heat and cooling calculations and pay repairs at home in order to increase energy efficiency.

The employees said that the layoffs of around 20 employees were surprising and were concerned about whether the program will continue after the end of September and impoverished people are exposed to increasing heating calculations in autumn and winter.

LiHeap offers “life -saving services,” says Germain. One possibility of how the funds are used is to help people with low incomes pay their electricity invoices if they rely on oxygen or other medical devices or keep the refrigerator up to date to keep insulin or other medications.

Germain led compliance monitoring to ensure that the states used the LiHeaP money correctly. He said fraud was rare. But LiHeap was checked by project in 2025. A “gap” was found, which was determined by the congress more than ten years ago in 2014, which was used by around 10 states to provide minimal energy support in a way, which was then qualified for a larger snap or food stamp.

The congress provided 4.1 billion US dollars for LIHEAP in the 2024 financial year. Germain says that without federal employees, the program is unclear how it will continue after the current appropriation in September.

Pretlow, who has lost your job as a program specialist in the LIHAP office, said: “You can pay much more in another place. You can be praised more in another place. You can be more valued at a different place. But the people I have worked with have a big heart for the service.”