Human Needs Report

The Human Needs Report is the Coalition on Human Needs' newsletter on national policy issues affecting low-income and vulnerable populations. It is published every other week while Congress is in session.

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Articles from October 14, 2005

• House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services
  In the coming weeks, the House of Representatives will be pushing a new plan to cut at least $50 billion – and possibly more - from services that mostly help low-income and vulnerable people.
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• Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts
  Congress is threatening nearly every program funded annually by the federal government – from education to biomedical research, workforce training, Head Start, housing, WIC and many others – with an across the board cut that may be between 2 and 4 percent.
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• Victims of Katrina Still Waiting for Medicaid Help
  While thousands of destitute Katrina survivors are reportedly being turned away from Medicaid, the White House has refused to support the bipartisan Emergency Health Care Relief Act (S. 1716) designed to provide federally funded health care to those affected by the disaster.
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• House and Senate Fail to Extend Help for Low-Income Medicare Recipients
  Congress failed to extend the Transitional Medicaid Assistance (TMA) for families leaving the welfare rolls before leaving for a week-long recess. They also failed to extend the QI-1 program, which pays the Medicare Part B premium ($88.50 in 2006) for Medicare beneficiaries with incomes between 120 and 135 percent of the federal poverty level.
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