This LCAO letter, signed by 44 organizations, outlines the coalitions’ appropriations priorities by committee and agency for the FY 2016 budget.
House Version – LCAO FY16 Appropriations – House
Senate Version – LCAO FY16 Appropriations – Senate
Tag: Budget
Chair’s Letter – FY 2016 Budget Letter
The following letters from the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) urge Congress to adopt fiscal solutions that would strengthen the financial and health security of older adults, and to reject proposals that would worsen the already fragile economic and health status of older Americans and their families in the FY 2016 Budget.
House:LCAO Budget Letter – House
Senate:LCAO Budget Letter – Senate
Letter on POTUS FY 2016 Budget – Medicare Proposals
This letter urges the President to abstain from including certain proposals in the FY2016 budget, namely those included in past budgets that would shift additional health care costs to people with Medicare.
Letter – Senate FY-2015 Omnibus Appropriations
LCAO sent the attached FY15 appropriation request letter for an omnibus appropriations bill with 43 sign-on’s to Congress. The letter urges the completion of an omnibus spending bill in the lame-duck session for Labor-HHS-Education funding, to include funding for Older Americans Act programs to pre-sequester FY 2010 levels and related funding requests deemed the highest priority by LCAO. This version of the letter was sent to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.
Letter – House FY-2015 Omnibus Appropriations
LCAO sent the attached FY15 appropriation request letter for an omnibus appropriations bill with 43 sign-on’s to Congress. The letter urges the completion of an omnibus spending bill in the lame-duck session for Labor-HHS-Education funding, to include funding for Older Americans Act programs to pre-sequester FY 2010 levels and related funding requests deemed the highest priority by LCAO. This version of the letter was sent to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.
Senate Approps FY15 Letter on Older Americans Act
A letter to Senate Appropriations committee members regarding Older American Acts (OAA). The letter received 50 sign-on’s, supporting restoring all FY 2015 Older Americans Act programs funding to pre-sequester, FY 2010 levels.
House Approps FY15 Letter on Older American Act
A letter to House Appropriations committee members regarding Older American Acts (OAA). The letter received 50 sign-on’s, supporting restoring all FY 2015 Older Americans Act programs funding to pre-sequester, FY 2010 levels.
Letter to President Obama on FY 2015 Budget
Letter from the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations to President Obama concerning his proposed budget for 2015.