Hicap program does and what this update means from the California Department of ageing. Briefly, our Hicap Program, it stands for. [ inaudible ] its a medicare focus program, providing community education, one to one counseling and advocacy to Medicare Beneficiaries as well as people soon to be Medicare Beneficiaries. Services within that are explanation of medicare benefits, explanation of Health Care Insurance terminology, a review of insurances available to consumers such as medigap pals and medicare pals, health with claims and procedures, as well as counseling around longterm care insurance. I want to note that the work that the counselors does is just above and beyond education. Its also helping people make educated decisions about their services. They will work people around what their decisions are and help them make the best decisions related to medicare benefits. We subcontract or funds to selfhelp for the elderly who administers hicap. They then serve the community through t
Ihss moe going up. The the Health Benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, ive jumped to the wrong one. Pardon me. So if we look at this one, what well see is weve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94. 6 to 117. 8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. This is due to additional dignity fund. We have a fairly stable ihss Public Authority payment. This is the Health Benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. And then, the other areas of the budget are really pretty much staying roughly where they are, just kind of basic inflation that adds little bits here and there. Commissioner loo . Commissioner loo i have a question. The question is the ihss consortium, the program in 1819 compared with 1718 is reduced by 25 . Yes, and so this is the item that was the error that i mentioned, so we would add 4. 5 million to the 1819 number. And just to say it again, and what happens when we put this together, was we projected we included the
So those have increased significantly, and thats really due to the to the ihss moe going up. The the Health Benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, ive jumped to the wrong one. Pardon me. So if we look at this one, what well see is weve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94. 6 to 117. 8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. This is due to additional dignity fund. We have a fairly stable ihss Public Authority payment. This is the Health Benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. And then, the other areas of the budget are really pretty much staying roughly where they are, just kind of basic inflation that adds little bits here and there. Commissioner loo . Commissioner loo i have a question. The question is the ihss consortium, the program in 1819 compared with 1718 is reduced by 25 . Yes, and so this is the item that was the error that i mentioned, so we would add 4. 5 million to the 1819 number. And just to say it again, an
Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. This is an amazing city. I relocated here last july from new york, you might be surprised to think im from new york and what i love about the city is that everyone is connected. Im taking over this morning and my driver says where can i take you and my driver said i told him the barber center. Barbara jordan, theres a center named after Barbara Jordan and i said yes, did you know who she was. He said not only do i know she was but i had a radio show in washington, 50 years ago on the station it doe
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming to this panel. Eric, the Deputy Director or today we will discuss an issue that has been getting a bit of attention these days, School Choice and especially private School Choice. I know there is all sorts of forms of School Choice in this country and a lot of conversation about charters. In particular as well, but given the recent conversation and recent president ial election i think this is where we will do our primary focus, but we will allow time for other issues and is so forth School Vouchers and other voucher like programs, voucher cousins, if you will has been growing in numbers. The cousins would be like tax credit scholarships and Education Savings Account and the latter is what one proponent yesterday called the cool new kid on the block. As most of you know President Trump and secretary of education ours big fans of School Choice and a secretary betsy devos was to talk about choice and its made it the centerpiece of her educatio