ACTION ALERT: URGE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY LIVING AND FUND MFP!

The Money Follows the Person (MFP) program provides grants to states to expand access to Home and Community-based Services (HCBS). States can use this money to help people who are living in or at risk of entering medical institutions return home.

This holiday season, call your Member of Congress and tell them that everyone deserves to be home for the holiday and to Pass the EMPOWER Care Act (HR 5306/S.2227) today!

MFP gets individuals – if they wish – out of institutions and back into their communities. MFP has assisted more than 88,000 individuals voluntarily move into a setting of their choice. MFP has improved the lives of older adults and people with disabilities, saved states money, and led to better outcomes. That’s why nearly every state has participated in the program! But MFP expired September 30, 2016, and states are running out of funding – and we are running out of time to get MFP reauthorized during this Congress.

URGE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY LIVING AND #FUNDMFP! 

Call your Senators and Representatives and ask them to cosponsor the EMPOWER Care Act!

For more information: https://medicaid.publicrep.org/empower-care-act/.

Thank you for your advocacy efforts! 

The NDSC Policy & Advocacy Team

  
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