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Families and providers urge more HCBS flexibility and higher pay for direct support professionals as DDDS seeks FY26 funds for community placements
Summary
The Division of Developmental Disability Services described FY26 door-opener funding to help graduates and people who can no longer live with family access community-based services. Parents, providers and advocates urged lawmakers to increase funding, create flexible housing uses of HCBS dollars and pay direct support professionals a living wage.
The Division of Developmental Disability Services (DDDS) presented its fiscal year 2026 governor's recommended budget to the Joint Finance Committee and described targeted "door-opener" investments intended to help school graduates access community-based services and to support people who can no longer live with family members.
Director remarks and budget highlights: DDDS officials said the FY26 budget includes funding intended to expand community placements and to maintain rate increases put in place last year to align provider wages with the state's new minimum wage until a comprehensive rate study is completed. The division noted recent state-federal matches the division uses to leverage Medicaid…
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