Push Congress to Keep OAA Programs Together!

• By: USAging
• On: 04/30/2025 15:27:50
• In: Policy & Advocacy

Click here to write to your lawmakers urging them to ensure the Older Americans Month (OAA) stays as one delivery system, the Aging Network, so your agency can continue to efficiently deliver services to older adults!
 
In April, the President's FY 2026 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services budget draft leaked, and it included a proposal to break up OAA programs and move them to different agencies, with nutrition moving to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and most other programs to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The budget would also completely eliminate several key OAA programs, including the Title III D evidence-based programs and Title VII's ombudsman program. 
 
Statute requires all OAA programs to be administered by the Administration on Aging and an Assistant Secretary for Aging. Rather than split the programs up, burdening the Aging Network with new red tape and cost inefficiencies, the administration should instead move all OAA programs to ACF, a human services agency better suited for administering programs. CMS, a massive health care administration agency, is unsuited to the task.  
 
Interested in learning more and missed our webinar last week? Here are links to the webinar recording and slides. If you have any questions, please contact USAging's policy team at policy@usaging.org.