Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Trump Budget Would Hurt Older Americans
Older Americans are among the many groups that
Here are some details of the harm to older Americans:
* Medicaid cuts would threaten many of their health care. Medicaid provides essential care for 7 million seniors, including nursing home care, long-term services and supports, and other medical care and supportive services that Medicare doesn't cover, which help many low-income seniors stay independent and healthy. The President's budget would cut Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) premium tax credits that help low- and moderate-income people afford coverage, by
* Deep SNAP (food stamp) cuts would cause more elderly people to struggle to afford food. SNAP households with an elderly member receive an average of
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* Rental and heating assistance cuts would hurt thousands of seniors. The budget's deep cuts in rental assistance for low-income families would leave 160,000 fewer households, nearly 45,000 of which include seniors, without housing vouchers that they could use to afford to pay rent. The budget would also eliminate the
* The budget eliminates several programs providing social and community services to older people. One is the Social Services
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Medicare in the 2021 Trump Budget
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