Administration announces $37B in funding to benefit seniors, disabled Americans

Biden administration announces $37B in funding to benefit seniors, disabled Americans The Biden administration announced Tuesday that $37 billion in funding has been committed to benefit seniors and Americans with disabilities since the start of the administration. The Centers for M… agangitano The Hill

More than $25 billion of the funding has gone to help retain, expand, and train care workforces and to increase the pay and improve benefits for care workers.

The other roughly $12 billion includes services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, offering family caregivers training and counseling support, reducing waitlists for home and community-based services and providing housing-related services to Americans at risk of homelessness due to mental illness.

The Biden administration highlighted several states that have taken advantage of the funds, including Colorado, which it said had increased the base wages of 60,000 care workers with the funding.

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