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Thanks John, for you willingness to get to Senator Harkin to clear
things up about DOL, NOW would you please try to get our for Platform
for Disability Rights Change at the White House to President Obama too?
I know you'll do all you can to help do the right thing. You always do!
Thanks! -- Nancy
Subject: ADAPT 38 ARRESTED OUTSIDE WHITEHOUSE -- Platform for
Disability Rights Change a
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 8:18 PM
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Subject: ADAPT 38 ARRESTED OUTSIDE WHITEHOUSE -- Platform for
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YES, ELDON; THOSE WHO GOT ARRESTED TODAY ARE OUR HEROS! Here's more
from us at ADAPT -- Nancy
Welcome to ADAPT!<http://www.adapt.org/main> > Whitehouse2013
A Platform for Disability Rights Change at the White House
As we review President Obama’s first term, ADAPT is deeply disappointed
by his failure to keep his promises to the Disability Community and
make substantive progress supporting the integration of people with
disabilities in the community. As we look forward into his second term,
ADAPT urges the Disability Community to hold him accountable for these
failures but also to demand that he address the critical issues we are
raising. Today, ADAPT demands that President Obama…
KEEP HIS PROMISES to the Disability Community by:
* Issuing a statement that he supports the development of
legislation that would finally end Medicaid’s institutional bias and
assure that people with disabilities have a community-based alternative
to institutional placement; and
* Instructing the Office of Management and Budget to return the
proposed rules implementing changes to the “companionship exemption” to
the Department of Labor and require DOL to follow Executive Order 13563
and fully involve the Disability Community in the development of these
rules, or alternatively – implement the compromise proposed by ADAPT
and the National Council on Independent Living.
EFFECTIVELY ENGAGE the Disability Community by:
* Hiring staff from the Disability Community in the Office of
Public Engagement who can create and coordinate direct dialogue between
the Obama Administration and Americans with disabilities; and
* Hiring staff from the Disability Community for the White House
Domestic Policy Council who can assure that the voice of the Disability
Community is included in the domestic policy-making process in the
White House.
LEAD THE COUNTRY in ending the injustice of institutionalization by:
* Designating Vice President Biden as an “Ambassador for Community
Living” and sending him on an Olmstead Anniversary Tour where he visits
ten model programs for transitioning people with disabilities into the
community and convenes round-tables in ten states to support them in
developing effective systems for truly integrating people with
disabilities; and
* Issuing an Executive Order that acknowledges inhumane, outmoded
and expensive warehousing of people in nursing facilities and other
institutions and implements specific steps to end this practice.
Of course, much of the work to FREE OUR PEOPLE must be done by the
Federal agencies.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
The President should instruct HHS Secretary Sebelius to:
* Identify a process for minimizing the negative impact of state
budget cuts on Long Term Services and Supports when the maintenance of
effort requirement under the Affordable Care Act expires;
* Establish Olmstead benchmarks for states to assure that they
adhere to minimum standards for providing effective community-based
alternatives to institutions and withhold Medicaid funding from states
that fail to meet such benchmarks;
* Work with the Department of Justice to align the complaint
processes used by the HHS Office for Civil Rights and the Department of
Justice so complaints to eliminate the need for DOJ to re-investigate
complaints that have already been investigated by HHS;
* Assure that implementation of managed care or other changes in
Medicaid at the state level promote community living and self-direction
and do not undercut Medicaid recipients’ rights to appeal decisions and
have appropriate hearing rights including aid continuing;
* Work with the ADAPT to strengthen the Community First Choice
(CFC) Option and assure that CFC implementation lives up to its promise.
* Develop a process to assure that HHS reviews its policies and
procedures to identify how it can assure compliance with the ADA’s
integration mandate;
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The President should instruct HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan to:
* Immediately disseminate the Olmstead guidance that was shared
with ADAPT in January 2013 without any weakened language;
* Implement an improved system to track nursing facility transition
vouchers to assure that these vouchers continue to be used for this
purpose when they are returned;
* Include people with disabilities in nursing facilities and
institutions within the definition of “homeless”;
* Develop a package of pre-approved policies, procedures and other
necessary documentation that housing authorities can simply adopt in
order to implement preferences or set-asides for people with
disabilities seeking community living; and
* Develop and distribute guidance that individuals with
disabilities who are seeking to leave institutions and live in the
community must be granted a reasonable accommodation that allows them
to receive the next available voucher in order to transition.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The President should instruct Attorney General Eric Holder to:
* Immediately pursue Olmstead enforcement addressing the
institutionalization of people with disabilities – of all ages – in
nursing facilities;
* Instruct the Civil Rights Division to meet with representatives
of ADAPT and the National Council on Independent Living to develop a
plan to address the concern of retaliation at the state and local level
which is under-cutting the availability of supports from this unique
network of disability-led organizations; and
* Meet with members of ADAPT to better understand the disability
community’s concerns about the Olmstead implications of Department of
Labor’s proposed changes to the “companionship exemption” and include
ADAPT in a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget to address
this issue.
In a message dated 4/22/2013 5:02:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
HERO'S!!
A Platform for Disability Rights Change at the White House
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:16:18 -0400
Subject: ADAPT Disability Scoop -- 38 ARRESTED OUTSIDE WHITEHOUSE
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: 4/22/2013 1:49:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Disability Scoop
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From: Janine Bertram <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:10:13 -0700
To: [email protected] Smock<[email protected]>; Adam
Ballard<[email protected]>; Sarah
Watkins<[email protected]>; Bruce Darling<[email protected]>;
Bob Kafka<[email protected]>; Mark
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Subject: Disability Scoop
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Podesta <[email protected]>
To: Nancybk <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 5:46 pm
Subject: Re: John Podesta, can you please help us get this to Senator
Harkin
I'll see what I can do. Probably tough given previous meeting.
From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 5:01:25 PM
To: John Podesta; [email protected]
Subject: John Podesta, can you please help us get this to Senator Harkin
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Sent: 4/22/2013 1:57:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Re: Saving Independent Living As We Know It from the DOL Rules
Dear Bruce, can you please advise me on how to disabuse Senator
Harkin's office that this is in any way the position of Consumer
Directed IHSS Consumers in California. As you know so well, we had our
own advocates meeting with Donna Aguilar of the Office of
Management budget to let her know about how destructive the negative
unintended consequences of the DOL rules deal well rules would be here
in California and the widespread misery that would be created on the
day it would be enacted. I will attach -mails during below of our
communications to Donna Aguilar of OMB beneath your e-mail, so that
Andrew Imperato might convey our true sentiments to the Senator.
Nancy Becker Kennedy
Join the IHSS Consumers Union on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/groups/IHSS.ConsumersUnion/
"Nothing About Us Without Us!" (Latin: "Nihil de nobis, sine nobis") is
a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided
by any representative without the full and direct participation of
members the group(s) affected by that policy. This involves national,
ethnic, disability based or other groups that are often thought to be
marginalized from political, social, and economic opportunities.
In a message dated 4/20/2013 5:04:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Nancy,
Harkin's office facilitated a meeting with ADAPT, SEIU and AFSCME
yesterday. SEIU spoke at length how "their California members in
consumer direction" WANTED this change to the companionship exemption!
We pushed back, but CA folks may want to correct that impression.
Bruce
Thank you Ms. Echols. Would you be so kind as to forward the
background materials, Emails strings on content , OpEd and panel
information I sent you to Ms. Aguilar. Thank you. -- Nancy Becker
Kennedy
In a message dated 4/5/2013 7:17:22 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Good Morning Nancy, The person who chaired your call is Brenda
Aguilar. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 9:36 PM
To: Echols, Mabel E.
Subject: May I know the name of the woman we met with today, thursday
thank you.-- nancy
In a message dated 4/4/2013 2:51:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight
Time,[email protected] writes:
Deborah Miles, IHSS Consumer, Board Member of the Personal Assistance
Services Council Of Los Angeles County, Member of the PASC Managed-Care
Committee, IHSS Consumer Union/CD-R Californians for Disability Rights
661 - 264 9228
Nancy Becker Kennedy, IHSS Consumer, Member of the Personal Assistance
Services Council of Los Angeles County, Chair of the PASC Managed-Care
Committee, IHSS Consumers Union/CD-R, ADAPT, 323 221 2757
Arnold Arbizzo, IHSS Consumer, Member of the IHSS ConsumersUnion/CD-R
562 929 6923
Bonnie Hagy, IHSS Consumer, Vice President of the Polio Survivors
Association 626-359-8628
Ellyn Kearney, IHSS Consumer, Pastoral Counselor, IHSS Consumer
Union/CD-R
626-399-8775, 626 793 - 8775 home
Tony Anderson Executive Director The Arc California and Director of the
Collaboration for The Arc UCP in California, [email protected]
Donna Calame Executive Director of the San Francisco Public Authority
(cannot attend, out of country -- will make her comments in writing
when she returns.)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: 3/31/2013 12:14:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Revised Oped Unintended Consequences: Collateral Damage of the
Homecare Rules
Dear Editor;
In your editorial, "Homecare Rules in the Homestretch," you fail to
understand the reality of living on government funded Medicaid and the
Russian Roulette pistol aimed at the heads of the Seniors, People with
Disabilities and our Home Care Workers who depend on it, every year
when budgets are cut. Although overtime pay would be great for IHSS
providers, in publicly funded Medicaid programs, states that are
cutting IHSS (In Home Supportive Services) are not likely to provide
overtime pay and will instead most likely cut hours worked above 160
hours a month for any one provider. There is a big move to push
through these Department of Labor rules as written right now with no
consideration of how they'll really play out in the homes of Seniors
and People with Disabilities and their Caregivers in New York and
California where people have over 159 hours of IHSS a month.
I know of a proud union member, a mother over 60, who has multiple
disabilities of her own and takes care of her adult son with athetoid
cerebral palsy who will see her household income of about $2520 a month
in California drop to $1431, as her hours are cut from 280 hours a
month to 160 hours. She doesn't have the stamina to supplement her
income with more jobs and she has trouble finding other caregivers
because her son cannot be understood very well by others. The union
has taken over $40 a month from her for check each month to lobby for
what will cut her income by a pretty big fraction. 70% of the
caregivers in California are family members whose households stay
intact with IHSS. A cut in hours can threaten their ability to stay in
their homes. Seniors and People with Disabilities with Live in
Caregivers will be uprooted as well. Jerry Brown just got done settling
a lawsuit trying to cut the IHSS program in California by 20% and
settled for cutting it by about 8 percent. Do you really think he's
going to take time and a half for over 50,000 providers? His
representative on an Olmsted conference said they wouldn't.
When I was in the Young Socialist Alliance in college, before I had my
accident, I believed in theories in a vacuum. Then I became disabled
and saw how these things work out on a real-life level. In California,
we have the most highly advanced In-Home Supportive Services program,
and the reason it was so good is that the disabled person received
money to find somebody and all of that money went directly to the
caregiver. The attendant got all the bang for the buck. And while
ADAPT American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today was fighting to
get In Home Care, this wonderful program to all the states, they came
up with things like "Money Follows the Person" and "Community First
Choice Option" where that money continued to go to the disabled person
to pay directly to their caregiver with no middleman.
But suddenly all kinds of profiteering is going on as big bad
corporations and yes even sometimes big bad unions behaviors are
immerging as monied interests smell a beautiful dollar to be made in
the graying of the baby boomers. On a good day the union is our
greatest blessing on a bad day they are our greatest curse. The only
way to come up with a reasonable solution that takes everyone's welfare
into account is to sit down and work it out. I think what's been most
frightening to me in all of this is the ease with which able-bodied
regard People with Disabilities as invisible. The SEIU would not even
sit down at the table with People with Disabilities to work out a
compromise. Would this happen to a person of color? Are we the last
population to be seen as a fraction of a person -- or a person who is
really there at all?
People have been making industries of people with disabilities for
decades, in the nursing home industry, the charity industry, and now
the medical industrial complex and the unions too on a bad day. People
from ADAPT clawed our ways out of nursing homes that were profiteering
off of us and now we have to fight against the nursing agency industry,
managed care corporations, and even at times a union that is so out of
touch with its rank and file providers needs that it would create three
crappy jobs from one not so good one in order to collect two or three
union dues on a one house. It is the people disabilities and
rank-and-file providers, who are in a symbiotic relationship, huddled
together to keep industries and unions from objectifying us and moving
us around like "furniture" in their business plans. You can choose to
be naïve and come up with lovely little fairy lands in your own mind,
but make no mistake, your naïveté will be paid for by the rank-and-file
workers whose pay will be cut badly and people with disabilities who
will go back to nursing homes.
The ADAPT-NCIL compromise would simply eliminate the exemption for
third party employers, treating Medicaid consumers in consumer directed
programs (including public authorities, fiscal intermediaries and
agencies with choice) the same as private employers so they can still
use the existing exemption. According to the DOL analysis, this change
- alone - would eliminate the companionship exemption for 70% of home
care workers. It covers all of the "bad players" and concerns raised
in the DOL analysis that exist in traditional home care while
minimizing the negative impact on people with disabilities and
preventing the unexpected consequences such changes would have on real
live people in Medicaid funded programs.
Where were our points of view in this newspaper? In the DOL
discussions? Why include us? It’s only our bodies, our civil rights,
our freedom from living lives akin to political prisoners in
iinstitutions! If anyone had any respect for people with disabilities
we would have included us in the discussion.
Nancy Becker Kennedy
Appointed Member Since Its Inception
Los Angeles County Public Authority Board PASC
that oversees the In Home Care of over
200,000 Seniors and People with Disabilities
Join the IHSS Consumers Union on Facebook at
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"Nothing About Us Without Us!" (Latin: "Nihil de nobis, sine nobis") is
a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided
by any representative without the full and direct participation of
members the group(s) affected by that policy. This involves national,
ethnic, disability based or other groups that are often thought to be
marginalized from political, social, and economic opportunities.
From: "Donna Calame" <[email protected]>
Date: March 3, 2013, 10:33:48 AM PST
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Home Care Rules in the Home StretchWhat this NY Times
editorial fails to acknowledge is that California has had the most
generous home care program for poor people in the United States for
several decades - In-Home Supportive Services. Today, IHSS pays about
380,000 home care workers - 72 percent of whom are family members - to
serve about 440,000 people. Throughout that time, the workers have
been paid minimum wage. The issue in California is how the OVERTIME
regs will affect both IHSS consumers and workers. Neither your analysis
nor that of the DOL has considered that as drafted these regs will
significantly damage this consumer-directed program. Yes. The state of
California AND many IHSS consumers and workers oppose these regs on
monetary grounds. Because they point toward both service reductions and
less income for households where family workers provide the assistance.
We are not part of the home care AGENCY industry world. But none of you
have truly understood the uniqueness of IHSS and the unnecessary damage
these regs will perpetrate.
Donna CalameExecutive DirectorSan Francisco IHSS Public Authority832
Folsom St., 9th floorSan Francisco, CA 94107Direct line:
415.593.8111www.sfihsspa.org
The call-in number is: 202-395-6392; code 3862485.Dear Ms. Echols,
please forgive me for the informality of sending you this e-mail
string, but I think it will give you some background on some of the
concerns those of us who are and advocate for Seniors and Persons with
Disabilities in California: The IHSS Consumers Union, The San Francisco
Public Authority, Members of the Managed-Care Committee of the Los
Angeles County Public Authority and the Arc of California, the largest
membership association for all people with intellectual and
developmental disabilities and their families would very much like to
speak with you. We have serious concerns regarding the unintended
negative consequences that could occur for Seniors and Persons with
Disabilities in the state of California if the Department of Labor
rules regarding the Companionship Exemption are applied to publicly
funded Medicaid programs.
Thank you for your dedication in serving our country.
Sincerely
Nancy Becker Kennedy
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"Nothing About Us Without Us!" (Latin: "Nihil de nobis, sine nobis") is
a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided
by any representative without the full and direct participation of
members the group(s) affected by that policy. This involves national,
ethnic, disability based or other groups that are often thought to be
marginalized from political, social, and economic opportunities.
In a message dated 3/25/2013 2:20:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight
Time,[email protected] writes:
Thanks we agree. I'll incorporate into our notices. Tony
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:16 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Click here: The Center for Disability Rights - Free Our People
From:[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: 3/23/2013 5:58:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Disability Community vs DOL
From California:
Although overtime pay would be great for IHSS providers, in publicly
funded Medicaid programs, states that are cutting IHSS are not likely
to provide overtime pay and will instead most likely cut hours worked
above 159 hours a month for any one provider. There is a big move to
push through these Department of Labor rules as written right now with
no consideration of how they'll really play out in the homes of Seniors
and People with Disabilities and their Caregivers in New York and
California where people have over 160 hours of IHSS a month.
In California where 70% of caregivers are family providers, IHSS makes
it possible for families to stay intact when they have a senior family
member or a family members with a disability, who needs in-home care.
These families could see their household income drop dramatically.
Significantly disabled people with over 160 hours could lose loyal
live-in and live out caregivers they've had for decades, because their
work hours will be cut below the money they need to live. Or people
with severe disabilities may not be able to get providers to help them
when one of the providers needs to leave, because the remaining
providers will be in danger working overtime. The unintended
consequences of this unbalanced approach to the way private and public
in-home supportive services are paid could lead to widespread misery in
publicly funded In-Home Supportive Services.
Senior and Disability Rights Advocates were not included in discussions
where these Department of Labor rules were developed. Now, the
National Council on Disability is trying to explain this to those who
can make a difference. Their letter is printed below. The NCIL/ADAPT
compromise could be a win-win solution for everyone, where privately
funded agencies would have different rules than in publicly funded
Medicaid In-Home Supportive Services in states where finite revenues
determine what can be paid. "Our compromise creates a win-win solution,
covers 70% of attendants and allows us all to be at the table for
further discussion," says Bruce Darling of CDR ADAPT.
Below see the Letter from the National Council on Disability about
these possible negative unintended
consequences. http://www.ncd.gov/publications/2013/03192013/ The
Disability and Senior communities and the rank-and-file IHSS providers
in New York and California do not seem to of been fully informed or
permitted to give input about the impact of this law as written. If
after reading this letter, you feel the Office of Management and Budget
should delay changing these rules until they consult with
Disability And Senior Communities and make sure it won't cut the number
of hours providers are permitted to work in publicly funded programs,
then sign the petition at the link above or make your comments here at
Capitol Hill's Congress blog
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/286539-act-now-on-fair-wages-for-home-care-aides and DIRECT letters
to [email protected]
As more sign-on letters are developed for the Office of Management and
Budget OMB, we will give you other opportunities to voice your
opinions, but time is running short before these proposed laws will
become what we try to live with. United in win-win solutions for Home
Care Workers and Seniors and Persons with Disabilities!
http://www.ncd.gov/publications/2013/03192013/
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"The disability community is deeply concerned that the proposed changes
will have a negative impact on people with disabilities, consumer
direction and our attendants. Medicaid rates are not going to increase
so attendant hours will be capped. DOL - in its own analysis -
identified that instutionalization was an outcome of these rules. Are
you aware of our concerns? Do you really think Medicaid rates are
going to increase to coveer the cost of time-and-a-half? Appreciate
your insights as to how this would - practically - move forward. --
Bruce Darling ADAPT"
Check outwww.DOLoffMYbody.org to get a feel for how these proposed
rules impact people with disabilities.
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"Nothing About Us Without Us!" (Latin: "Nihil de nobis, sine nobis") is
a slogan used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided
by any representative without the full and direct participation of
members the group(s) affected by that policy. This involves national,
ethnic, disability based or other groups that are often thought to be
marginalized from political, social, and economic opportunities.
From Michael Condon -- STOP THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
My name is Michael Condon I'm a disabled Veteran, paralyzed from the
neck down for the last 40 years. I live in San Diego, CA, in a home I
rent,and I am assisted by a caregiver paid for by In-Home Supported
Services (IHSS). IHSS employs nearly 400,000 caregivers across the
State. Almost 50% of these caregivers currently work more than 40
hrs/week. In addition, 70% of the IHSS caregivers in this program care
for family members, many of whom require protective supervision (24 /7
care).
The State has neither the funds nor the inclination to pay overtime.
This will put me, and hundreds of thousands like me, at risk of
institutionalization. Because our caregivers will be limited to a 40
work week, I will be forced to have multiple caregivers while there are
already not enough to meet the current need. Please do not institute
the DOL regs. requiring overtime. The disabled, elderly and blind
on...this program would love to have their caregivers receive time and
a half, but that will not happen. What will happen (unintended
consequences) instead, the caregivers hours will be cut driving many
deeper into poverty. The caregiver loses, the senior/disabled loses and
the Unions almost double their membership dues.
Sincerely.
Michael Condon
This is why a 40 hour work week mandate is bad. It will be financially
devastating to 46% of IHSS IP's (190,000 workers)in CA alone.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY AND OUR
CAREGIVERS NOT TO GET THEIR HOURS CUT IN HALF, SHOW US THE MONEY!
Click here: Petition | United States Department of Labor: Don't remove
the "companion exemption" to the FLSA until money is th
Petitioning Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis
This petition will be delivered to:United States Department of Labor
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis
Senior Policy Advisor, White House Domestic Policy Council
Portia Wu
Acting Director, Office of Management & Budget
Jeffrey Zients
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, White House
Nancy-Ann DeParle
US Department of Labor
Laura McClintock
United States Department of Labor: Don't remove the "companion
exemption" to the FLSA until money is there.
Petition byPhilip BennettBklyn., NY
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Home care workers and people we assist may be saved!by Philip Bennett
Petition Organizer
I ask all who signed my petition to please call the White House
(202-456-1414) & ask for the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). OMB is currently
reviewing the FLSA change & is set to release it April 1st. We need to
tell OMB to reject it & thereby save home care workers & the people we
assist. Comments can be made to OMB through OIRA.
The name of the regulation is FLSA Domestic Service Regs (29CFR 552
and the ID at OMB is RIN# 1235-AA05
Unfortunately that phone number is not released to the public so we
must call the White House switch board. For more information call me,
Philip Bennett: 718-339-0404
And please share my petition with as many people as possible. I love my
job & I want to afford to keep doing it & I don't want to see more
people forced into nursing homes. Thank you!
Please forward to Brenda Aguilar. Thank you.
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