Vouchers
Current Status in House Republican Bill
source Washington Post Full article: https://wapo.st/4dnkSf6
Tax credits for home schooling or private school
The bill includes up to $5 billion per year, for four years, in tax credits that benefit people who donate to organizations that help families pay for private-school tuition or home-schooling. It would create a 100 percent tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations, with taxpayers fully reimbursed for their donations when they file their taxes. The program would be capped at $5 billion in the first of four years and grow modestly each subsequent year if there is sufficient demand. Under the proposal, families earning up to three times their area median income would qualify for vouchers. That’s more than $450,000 per year in Washington, D.C., or more than $270,000 in Morgantown, West Virginia.National Coalition for Public Education Denounces Inclusion of National Private School Voucher Program in Republican Tax Bill Statement . This is the statement from the Disability Community
Advocacy
NCPE work opposing reauthorization of the DC Vouchers
Letters opposed to the Education Choice for Children’s Act ECCA:
Faith Leaders letter
Advancement Project Letter
NCPE Letter
TAke Action National PTA - telling our stories https://www.pta.org/home/advocacy/take-action?vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f120178%2fRespond
Medicaid and SNAP
Current Status in House Republican Bill
Full article: https://wapo.st/4dnkSf6
Cuts to Medicaid
To meet budget goals, Republican plans to cut Medicaid spending could strip coverage from 8.7 million people and lead to 7.6 million more uninsured people over 10 years. The legislation calls for new requirements for beneficiaries, including co-pays for those above 100 percent of the federal poverty level and work requirements for many able-bodied, childless adults. It would also tighten eligibility verification rules and limit taxes states charge medical providers as a roundabout way of collecting more federal Medicaid dollars.
Cuts to SNAP
The legislation would pass on more of the cost for administering SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps, to state governments, potentially forcing local officials to decide whether to cut benefits or dig into their state and municipal budgets. Twenty-eight states with higher rates of improper payments would be required to shoulder 25 percent of benefits costs in addition to 75 percent of administrative costs. Currently, states only pay half of the program’s overhead and do not contribute to benefits.
Advocacy and Information’
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Fact Sheet (SNAP)
https://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/FRAC-Facts-SNAP-Strengths_FNL.pdf
DCFPI Federal Threats Action Network
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/subscribe-to-receive-dcfpis-federal-threats-watch
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Join Defend DC Signal Group - school points of contact
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