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As September draws to a close, United Spinal wants to make sure that we are keeping up the pressure on Congress to pass important priorities for our community. Please take a few moments to send these action alerts to your elected officials in Congress. *Fully Fund Caregiving in the Build Back Better Act* Funding for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS), which helps to keep people with disabilities in our own homes and part of our communities, has long been neglected. People get stuck on waiting lists for years. The direct care workforce is underpaid. Family members are often forced to become unpaid caregivers for their loved ones. Congress is currently considering the Build Back Better Act, legislation that includes many updates to the social safety net, such as Medicare and Medicaid. Please tell Congress to include full funding for caregivingin this bill! [image: Take Action] <https://www.votervoice.net/UnitedSpinal/campaigns/86846/respond> *Include SSI Reforms in the Build Back Better Act* For many people with disabilities, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) can be a lifeline. However, many of the provisions relating to eligibility, such as rules regarding additional earned income and the amount of assets an individual or a married couple may retain, have not been updated in 30 years or more, and as a result both income and assets have not kept up with inflation and are unnecessarily punitive to people with disabilities. Please tell Congress to include long-overdue updates to SSI in the Build Back Better Act! [image: Take Action] <https://www.votervoice.net/UnitedSpinal/campaigns/69590/respond> *Make Transportation More Accessible and Accountable to the Disability Community* United Spinal worked with disability champions Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI), Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV), and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to introduce the Disability Access to Transportation Act (H.R. 1697/S. 2038). This bill addresses some of the biggest needs that people with disabilities have with our transportation system by improving paratransit, increasing accountability for transportation providers, and providing more funding to transportation agencies to provide services for people with disabilities. Please take a moment to ask your members of Congress to cosponsor this bill. [image: Take Action] <https://www.votervoice.net/UnitedSpinal/campaigns/73969/respond> With just a few clicks, you are truly making a big difference for our community. With your help, let's work together to get our community's priorities across the finish line. Thank you all, Steve Lieberman Director, Policy & Advocacy, United Spinal Association ------------------------------ You have received this message because you have subscribed to a mailing list of United Spinal Association. If you do not wish to receive periodic emails from this source, please click below to unsubscribe. Click here <https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/-11373cHpoTNLjQuNQ4_CA> to unsubscribe from this mailing list. [image: Powered by VoterVoice] <https://www.votervoice.net/>
