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Advocates say GA process failures and notice confusion harmed vulnerable clients; two recent clients died during appeals
Summary
End Homelessness Vermont and other advocates told the House Human Services Committee that repeated requests for reasonable accommodations, delayed fair hearings and unclear renewal notices left medically vulnerable clients at risk and contributed to recent deaths.
Brenda Siegel, executive director of End Homelessness Vermont, told the House Human Services Committee that clients who needed reasonable accommodations and continued shelter faced repeated administrative barriers during recent program renewals.
Siegel described multiple clients who had to pursue fair hearings to keep emergency shelter and said one client who had been supported through multiple accommodations later died. “We'd worked with him for many years… a little over a week ago, he died,” Siegel said, describing a client who had been in organ failure and on oxygen and who was sheltered after an overturned decision but later died.
Siegel said her…
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