Aging agencies, disability and migration of poverty were destroyed amid workers’ demobilization: footage

The demobilization operations of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services have reduced the employees of the major programs for federal aging, disability and poverty, leaving the future of these programs is uncertain.

At least 40 % of the employees obtained the hairstyles of workers, many of which were removed at the front door on Tuesday when they came to work in the administration for community life, or ACL, which coordinates federal policy on aging and disability. This is according to the agency’s previous director under her administration, Alison Parkov, who says she spoke to several members of her former employees.

The agency funds programs that manage senior centers and distribute 216 million meals annually to the elderly and the disabled through the meals program on wheels.

“The ACL programs are working to improve the lives of tens of millions of elderly people, persons with disabilities, their families and care providers.” “There is no way to get these cashiers and not affect the programs and people who depend on them.”

Last week, and advertisement From HHS workers, he said that ACL responsibilities will go to different parts of HHS.

But Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation for Government Rest Force, suggested that ACL is working on special education services once the Ministry of Education is dismantled. It is not clear where this work will be done now.

In addition, each employee of the Energy Assistance Department was discharged, according to employees who lost their jobs on Tuesday, Andrew German and Viki Pretlow. The office runs a low -income home energy assistance program, Or liheap, It helps 5.9 million low -income families to pay heat and cooling bills and pay home repairs to enhance energy efficiency.

The employees said that the demobilization of workers, which includes about 20 surprises, and expressed concern about whether the program would continue as soon as funding is running out at the end of September and the poor people face the growing heating bills in the fall and winter.

Germain says that Leesidy provides “life rescue services.” One of the methods that use money is to help people with low incomes to pay their electrical bills when they depend on oxygen or other medical devices or the need to keep the refrigerator to store insulin or other medications.

Germain ran to monitor compliance to make sure that the countries used Liheap money properly. He said that fraud is rare. But Liheap was examined by the 2025 project. “A vulnerability” – which was identified by Congress more than ten years ago, noticed in 2014 – used by about 10 states to provide minimal energy assistance in a way that then qualified poor people to capture larger, stamp food, or payment.

Congress allocated $ 4.1 billion to Liheap in the fiscal year 2024. Germain says without federal employees running the program, and it is not clear how this will continue after the current accreditation ends in September.

“You can pay you much more than that in a different place, you can be paid more in a different place, you can be appreciated in a different place. But the people with whom you worked have a great heart to serve,” said Pretlow, whose job as a program specialist at the Liheap office said.