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Human Services committee tells Appropriations: prioritize food, shelter and safety; restores targeted programs
Summary
The House Human Services Committee told Appropriations on Feb. 26 that its budget letter prioritizes 'food, shelter and safety,' declines COLAs for community providers because offsets aren’t available, and recommends restorations and targeted funding for child care, supervised visitation, peer homelessness services and Meals on Wheels.
The chair of the House Human Services Committee presented the committee’s budget letter to the House Appropriations Committee on Feb. 26, saying the panel ‘‘prioritized the basics of food, shelter, and safety’’ as it set FY27 recommendations and that one‑time federal dollars are drying up.
The letter recommends no cost‑of‑living adjustments (COLAs) for community providers this year, a decision the chair described as painful but unavoidable because the committee ‘‘could not find offsetting cuts for the amount of money that that would require.’’ The committee emphasized it views that omission as a reduction for providers, not an endorsement of leaving rates unchanged.
On specific line items, the committee proposed a number of targeted restorations and new allocations. The largest single dollar change in the child‑care area is a $6.2 million general‑fund increase for the Child Care Financial Assistance Program after the committee said the program became an entitlement and…
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