{"id":2185,"date":"2009-01-15T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2009-01-15T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:32:16","slug":"diving_into_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"Diving Into The Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the disability-related provisions contained in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/16\/business\/economy\/16webstimulus.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">proposed stimulus bill<\/a> that was unveiled today. This information comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/news\/stimulus\/2009\/01\/15\/summary-of-spending-proposals-in-825-billion-stimulus-bill-proposed-by-house-democrats.html?PageNr=1\">summary released by the House leadership<\/a>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IDEA Special Education: $13 billion for formula grants to increase the federal share of special education costs and prevent these mandatory costs from forcing states to cut other areas of education.<\/li>\n<li>IDEA Infants and Families: $600 million for formula grants to help states serve children with disabilities age 2 and younger. <\/li>\n<li>Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants: $500 million for state formula grants for construction and rehabilitation of facilities to help persons with disabilities prepare for gainful employment.<\/li>\n<li>Payments to Disabled and Elderly: $4.2 billion to help 7.5 million low-income disabled and elderly individuals with rising costs by providing an additional SSI payment in 2009 equal to the average monthly federal payment under the program (approximately $450 for an individual and $630 for a couple). This one-time payment will serve as an immediate economic stimulus as half of SSI recipients have no other form of income and the other half average outside income of less than $450 per month.<\/li>\n<li>Social Security Administration Disability Backlog and Claims Processing: $500 million to help the Social Security Administration process a steep rise in disability and retirement claims, getting people their benefits faster, and preventing existing backlogs from getting worse. Within this total, $40 million will help SSI upgrade health information technology.<\/li>\n<li>Centers for Independent Living: $200 million for state formula grants to help individuals with disabilities continue to live in their communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The disability community may also find other provisions interesting, such as the $87 billion to shore up Medicaid and the $6 billion to improve broadband access in rural and underserved areas. These details will almost certainly change in the course of subsequent negotiations, but I would be surprised if the final bill didn&#8217;t include these items in one form or another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the disability-related provisions contained in the proposed stimulus bill that was unveiled today. This information comes from the summary released by the House leadership: IDEA Special Education: $13 billion for formula grants to increase the federal share of special education costs and prevent these mandatory costs from forcing states to cut <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2185' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}