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Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened with Budget Cuts, Reassignments
Budget cuts risk reducing legal support for Americans with disabilities, impacting vital advocacy services nationwide, advocates warn.
- The Trump administration is proposing cuts that advocates say would slash access to lawyers defending Americans with disabilities, reducing legal representation for this group.
- Tony Leys, KFF Health News reporter, highlighted threats to disability-rights legal services, with KFF Health News producing this national health-policy coverage.
- Isaac Schreier of Ankeny, Iowa uses a specialized wheelchair due to osteogenesis imperfecta, and his parents received legal help from Disability Rights Iowa after Medicaid refused payment.
- Advocates say the cuts would curtail legal aid providers' help securing mobility supports and benefits for people with disabilities and leave them without recourse against insurers and benefit managers.
- Advocates frame the dispute as a broader push that pits disability-rights groups against funders and government bodies within national health-policy coverage.
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