by admin | Feb 20, 2006 | News
An advocate for the disabled calls a proposed revision of the ticket-to-work program a good first step. Paraquad’s Jim Tuscher backs the bill filed by Representative Charles Portwood of Ballwin. It would serve an estimated 3,200 Missourians, allowing them to...
by admin | Feb 13, 2006 | News
A revision of the old Medicaid program that covered disabled Missourians who worked has been introduced in the House. Representative Charles Portwood of Ballwin sponsors legislation that would bring back a version of the Medical Assistance for Workers with...
by admin | Feb 9, 2006 | Politics / Govt
The State Social Services Department is sending letters to daycare centers, telling them the Department has added ten new investigators to its staff, and they’re going to start auditing the ways those centers spend state funds. Department Director Gary Sherman...
by admin | Jan 16, 2006 | Politics / Govt
As many as 14,000 Missourians who are both Medicare and Medicaid eligible are faced with problems stemming from implementation of the new federal prescription drug benefit. And, Governor Matt Blunt wants so-called dual eligible Missourians to know they will not be...
by admin | Jan 12, 2006 | News
It appears Governor Matt Blunt is offering no hope to Medicaid recipients who have lost funding for wheelchair batteries and Nebulizers, among other things. Nebulizers are devices that deliver medicine to people with lung ailments. Funding for those things was cut off...
