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Attendants deserve a raise!

Stand up for community attendants and help the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) understand the following fact: raising the minimum for community attendants to $10/ hour is a cost-effective way to strengthen community services and programs and to support Texans with disabilities. Money spent on this modest wage increase improves reliability and care, which results in

• better health for the consumer
• less acute care
• fewer ER visits
• fewer people being institutionalized unnecessarily

HHSC is seeking public input as it develops its budget request to present to the Legislature for the Fiscal Years 2016-2017 budget cycle. Stakeholders are invited to submit ideas and initiatives through June 23 for consideration in the agency’s budget request.

While HHSC is no longer taking feedback, there are still ways to stay involved and informed:

• Click here to read about Legislative Appropriations Requests (LARs) on our guest blog.
• Read CTD's 2013 Legislative Report to see what we've already done in the area of attendant wages.
• Check out more of CTD's action items! Click here.
• Sign up here to join a CTD Action Group, based on your priority issues.