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AARP Illinois
Budget Delivers Essential Funding to Services for Older Illinoisans
June 20th, 2008
Thousands of older Illinoisans received good news today from the Illinois legislature. Both houses of the General Assembly passed a seniors services budget bill that will allow them to live independently in the communities of their own choice and avoid costly and premature institutional care. AARP strongly supports the bill, which provides funding reflecting the needs identified in the Governor's introduced FY 2009 budget. House Bill 5701 fully funds the Community Care Programs with $116 million; it also restores the Ombudsman program and adds to it $450,000 in additional funding as it was introduced in the Governor's budget proposal; includes a $1 million growth for...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-06-20)
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