INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's budget crunch has become so severe that some state workers have suggested leaving severely disabled people at homeless shelters if they can't be cared for at home, parents and advocates said.
They said workers at Indiana's Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services have told parents that's one option they have when families can no longer care for children at home and haven't received Medicaid waivers that pay for services that support disabled people living independently.
Marcus Barlow, a spokesman for the Family and Social Services Administration, the umbrella agency that includes the bureau, said suggesting homeless shelters is not the agency's policy and workers who did so would be disciplined.
However, Becky Holladay of Battle Ground, Ind., said that's exactly what happened to her when she called to ask about the waiver she's seeking for her 22-year-old son, Cameron Dunn, who has epilepsy, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Holladay, a school nurse, said she and her husband would go bankrupt trying to pay for services themselves, so Cameron spends most days sitting in his stepfather's truck while he works as a municipal employee.
WTF? This is what we were left with. 8 years of mismanagement..
2 wars...banks stealing our money....government promoting sending jobs
and tax revenue overseas...corporations not paying 100 billion dollars
taxes that are legally collectible....
And now the nation wants this mess cleaned up in 18 months?
They're mad because the shit left behind was so big and so
disastrous that it would take years to fix.
And these people are wanting to put people in the U.S. senate
who are against social security...medicare...civil rights?
I'm going to go vomit...and then I'll get back on the phones
for gotv!