PeachWork: Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities

What is PeachWork? PeachWork is the disability community’s word for a common sense idea – promoting employment for a population that needs health insurance to a greater degree than their non-disabled peers. In general, policy makers and the public support this idea. Back in 2006, the General Assembly included language permitting the Department of Community […]

FAQ Regarding Reinstatement of Funding for Home Modifications in DCA’s Home Access Program

What is the Home Access Program? It provides funding and technical assistance to low-income individuals with disabling mobility impairments to retrofit their homes so that they can safely enter, use and exit their homes. Prior to the economic downturn in 2008, DCA directed $300,000 per year from the State Housing Trust Fund for The Home […]