Protection and advocacy organizations, located in each state and territory, help people with disabilities ensure their basic rights, fight abuse, and advocate for equal access and accountability in health care, education, and employment. This link will connect you with a listing of protection and advocacy organization in each state.
The National Disability Institute’s webpage on financial wellness resources can help you build your skills to manage money and make decisions about your money.
The IDD agency, located in each state and territory, offers a variety of programs and services through public funding to people with disabilities who qualify, based on the resources available to support people with IDD in that state. This link will connect you with the name of and contact information for the director of each state IDD agency.
This video gives an overview of public benefits that people with IDD may want to consider to pay for the things that they need in their life, including stories and advice from self-advocates about using public benefits.
This plain language document provides an overview of public benefits that a person with IDD may want to consider and includes steps to take to see if you can get public benefits.
State: Idaho
Filed: 2014
Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Overview: The brief supported a group of Idaho providers of services for people with IDD seeking reimbursement from their state Medicaid agency that failed to implement new provider rates published by the agency and approved by the federal government. The brief argued that the providers had a private right of action and that Idaho’s failure to implement the new rates violated the Medicaid Act’s equal access position.
Excerpt: “[P]rivate suits with respect to the Medicaid Act…are critical to assure that people with disabilities, particularly those who live in poverty or are elderly, get the health care they need and deserve, and that they have recourse to the federal courts and do not need to depend on an overburdened federal agency to revoke funding when they do not receive such care. Such necessary Medicaid Act services include the home- and community-based programs serving people with disabilities at issue in this suit –‘residential habilitation’ services, provided in supported living environments, and designed to help people with intellectual disabilities to live successfully in the community.”
Amicus Brief: Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Care Center, Inc.
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