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Senate committee advances bill to raise personal-needs allowance for nursing-home residents
Summary
The Senate Health Committee released S-3319 after testimony from residents and caregivers urging an increase in the monthly personal-needs allowance for Medicaid long-term care residents from $50 to about $140, indexed annually to federal benefit rates.
A New Jersey Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing on Oct. 7 advanced legislation to increase the monthly personal needs allowance (PNA) for Medicaid residents in long-term care facilities.
Stacy Moore, calling into the committee, said she suffered a spinal cord injury in 2007 and now lives in a nursing home. Moore testified that New Jersey's current PNA of $50 leaves residents without funds for phone service, hair care and other basic personal expenses. "Right…
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