Eighty-five percent of providers of intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) services experienced moderate to severe staffing shortage in the past year, and providers fear the situation coul...

The State of America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis explores challenges and highlights the resulting impacts upon the direct support workforce and the continued ability of people with I/DD to acces...

The State of America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis explores challenges and highlights the resulting impacts upon the direct support workforce and the continued ability of people with I/DD to acces...

Kimberly Bumgardner Bergman (48) speaks with colleague Danielle Knavel (42) about their work as Direct Support Professionals (DSP). Kimberly recalls the period she decided to move in with a group to p...

ANCOR joins with 70 other organizations in filing amicus brief on the risk to health coverage for people with disabilities posed by the Trump administration’s Medicaid work requirements

“The foundation that underpins our nation’s wide spectrum of community-based services is crumbling,” write Barbara Merrill and Tony Coelho.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Access Act, legislation to ensure older adults and people with dis...

The bipartisan Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act urges the Office of Management and Budget to establish a Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) for direct support professio...

The bipartisan Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act urges the Office of Management and Budget to establish a Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) for direct support professio...

While tremendous progress has been made over the past three decades, Disability Pride Month reminds us that inclusion is an ongoing commitment — one that requires all of us to continue removing barrie...

August recess offers one of the best opportunities of the year to show lawmakers how decisions about Medicaid, community-based services and the direct support workforce affect people with intellectual...

As a registered nurse and a direct support professional myself, I build my life around showing up for others. I’ve been there for early mornings, long nights and moments of real vulnerability. I suppo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the...

While such a memo does not have the force and effect of law, it represents the latest in a long line of actions subverting dignity, choice and community for people with disabilities—principles that ar...

This workforce and the home and community-based care system that supports them is in crisis.

Advocates for disabled people and those who care for them said they were insulted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allegations that the programs are "rife with fraud."

The undervaluing of HCBS demeans the very real, complex, and difficult work that caregivers—whether paid or unpaid—provide.

Today, Representatives Sharice Davids (KS-03) and Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) introduced new legislation to change a longstanding Supplemental Security Income (SSI) rule that can reduce benefits for seni...

Cutting more funding from Medicaid—after decades of underinvestment and on top of significant cuts included in H.R. 1—creates great uncertainty for people with intellectual and developmental disabilit...

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The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

A new report released by United Cerebral Palsy and ANCOR, a community of providers for people with disabilities, looks at the impact of funding cuts on access to community-based services for those wit...

While the direct care worker staffing situation is improving slowly, the vast majority of providers still report being unable to fill vacancies.

The HCBS Relief Act would provide a 10-percentage-point increase in Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for HCBS in 2026 and 2027.