Urge Your Lawmakers to Save OAA Programs

• By: USAging
• On: 04/25/2025 10:59:04
• In: Policy & Advocacy

Last week, a copy of the President's FY 2026 draft budget leaked, proposing to tear OAA programs apart and move them to two different agencies, with most programs at CMS and only nutrition going to ACF. The budget would also eliminate several key OAA programs, including the Title III D evidence-based programs, Title VII ombudsman, Adult Protective Services, SHIPs, ADRCs and more.
 
Statute requires all OAA programs to be under the AoA and federally administered by an Assistant Secretary for Aging. Splitting OAA programs into two different federal agencies would only cause unnecessary administrative burden and cost inefficiencies for the Aging Network that would affect the delivery of services to older adults.
 
The administration should instead move all OAA programs to ACF, a human services agency better suited for administering programs, rather than CMS, a massive health care administration agency unsuited to the task.
 
Use our recent Advocacy Alert to tell Congress to ensure the OAA stays as one delivery system, the Aging Network, that allows your agency to deliver services to older adults as efficiently as possible.
 
Interested in learning more and missed our webinar on Monday? Here are links to the webinar recording and slides. If you have any questions, please contact USAging's policy team at policy@usaging.org.