1. Budget Update
Kristine Chong Feb. 8, 2011

2. Big Picture Breakdown: Incoming budget shortfall: $26.4 billion
Total expenditures: $84.6 billion
Total resources: $86.3 billion
Breakdown:
Cuts: $12.5 billion
Revenue solutions: $12 billion
Other: $1.9 billion
Deficit breakdown:
$8.2 billion ( )
$17.2 billion ( )
$1 billion (reserve)

3. Major Cuts Exceptions: $1.7 billion – Medi-Cal
$1.7 billion – Redevelopment Agencies
$1.5 billion – CalWORKs
$1 billion – mental health program
$1 billion – higher ed (UC and CSU)
Exceptions:
K-12 Education
Corrections relatively low
% Change in Expenditures, by Program:
HHS: -21.5% (largest % decrease)
Corrections: -1%
Other notable cuts:
$750 million cut to the Department of Developmental Services (DDS)
$500 million cut to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
$190 million cut to Social Security Income/State Supplemental Program (SSI/SSP).

4. The UGLY Limit utilization of services Require co-pays Medi-Cal
Eliminate Adult Day Health Care
Reduce Provider Payments (10%)
Healthy Families
Eliminate vision benefit
Increase premiums
Increase co-pays
MEDI-CAL
Limits/Caps:
6 prescriptions/month
10 doctor visits/month
Cap on durable medical equipment
Cap on hearing aids
Cap on medical supplies
COPAYS: $5 copay physician/clinic/dental/pharmacy services // $50 copay ER services // $100/day or $200 max copay for hospital stays (REQUIRES FED AUTHORIZATION)
Provider payment reduction requires FEDERAL WAIVER
HEALTHY FAMILIES:
Increase monthly premiums for families:
%% poverty ($22 million savings) by $14/child ($16$30
% poverty
Increase co-pays: ER visits from $15 to $50; inpatient stays from $0 to $100/day //$200 max

5. The UGLY AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP)
Increase in client cost-sharing
Department of Developmental Services
$750 million reduction
ADAP:
Clients with incomes of up to 100 percent of poverty: No cost sharing
Clients with incomes of 101 percent to 200 percent: 5% of gross income
Clients with incomes of 201 percent to 300 percent: 7% of gross income
Clients with incomes greater than 300 percent: 10% of gross income

6. The UGLY 48 months time limit CalWORKs 13% grants reduction
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Reduce grants by $15/month
In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
Service hours reduction
Eliminate Domestic & Related Services
SSI Cut:
Same reduction for CAPI recipients

7. The Immigrant Perspective
Immigrant programs not targeted
Medi-Cal, CFAP, CAPI
Discriminatory CalWORKs cut

8. June Ballot Initiative
Special Election to extend temporary taxes on:
Sales
Income
Vehicle
Means earlier budget passage:
mid-March

9. What Next? Continued Messaging for Revenues
Intense advocacy to mitigate cuts
Hearings, legislative visits, call-ins, letters
Legislators projected to make decisions end of February
Ballot initiative: electoral push
Voter education: revenues solutions!
Continued Messaging for Revenues 9

10. Immigrant Day 2011
May 16, 2011
Sacramento
   
$85

11. Please visit www.caimmigrant.org for more info.
Kristine Chong Statewide Policy Organizer California Immigrant Policy Center Wilshire Blvd, 2nd floor Los Angeles, CA (213)
Please visit for more info.