4 thoughts on “Trump’s freeze may shut down Council on Aging”
I wouldn’t be so quick to judge President Trump. I know that meals on wheels charges mandatory donations to more than half of the senior community.
Not only did my mom tell me this, but I watched as they overwhelmed my own mother & didn’t honor her wishes in estate planning made years ahead. Estate plans and documents are legally binding folks, but my complaint to the attorney General concerning Council on Aging initiated court action has no response yet (over one year later). My mom died in 2020 with POLYSTYRENE on the kitchen table…do you think you can do anything about these non-profit businesses?
They are supposed to serve impoverished seniors yet they are too busy picking on wealthy older adults and their families to report all their mandatory donations for Meals on wheels?
This is what is excluded from the pause: “Any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause. Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused.
The programs mentioned by the Council on Aging, at this time, are not excluded because they are not direct payments to individuals. The White House will need to specifically indentfy all Older Americans Act funding as exempt. The FAQ doesn’t do that.
I have read the memo several times.
The programs mentioned by the Council on Aging staff are affected by the freeze because they are programs, not assistance paid directly to individuals (see the footnote 1 in the memo.). The footnote defines the federal financial assistance to be paused: “(i) all forms of assistance listed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the definition of this term at 2 CFR 200.1; and (ii) assistance received or administered by recipients or subrecipients of any type except for assistance received directly by individuals.
CFR 200.1 defines Federal financial assistance to mean “[a]ssistance that recipients or subrecipients receive or administer” in various forms.
CFR 200.1 (1)
(i) The Federal financial assistance that a recipient receives directly from a Federal agency or indirectly from a pass-through entity, as described in § 200.101; or
(ii) The cost-reimbursement contract under the Federal Acquisition Regulation that a non-Federal entity receives directly from a Federal agency or indirectly from a pass-through entity, as described in § 200.101.
CFR 200.1 (2) The instrument setting forth the terms and conditions. The instrument is the grant agreement, cooperative agreement, other agreement for assistance covered in paragraph (2) of the definition of Federal financial assistance in this section, or the cost-reimbursement contract awarded under the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
THIS IS A LIE!!!!! It does NOT affect OAA funding!!!!!! Read the memo and the FAQ from OMB
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I wouldn’t be so quick to judge President Trump. I know that meals on wheels charges mandatory donations to more than half of the senior community.
Not only did my mom tell me this, but I watched as they overwhelmed my own mother & didn’t honor her wishes in estate planning made years ahead. Estate plans and documents are legally binding folks, but my complaint to the attorney General concerning Council on Aging initiated court action has no response yet (over one year later). My mom died in 2020 with POLYSTYRENE on the kitchen table…do you think you can do anything about these non-profit businesses?
They are supposed to serve impoverished seniors yet they are too busy picking on wealthy older adults and their families to report all their mandatory donations for Meals on wheels?
I’m not joking.
Cindy,
I also checked the OMB FAQ.
This is what is excluded from the pause: “Any program that provides direct benefits to Americans is explicitly excluded from the pause and exempted from this review process. In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause. Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused.
The programs mentioned by the Council on Aging, at this time, are not excluded because they are not direct payments to individuals. The White House will need to specifically indentfy all Older Americans Act funding as exempt. The FAQ doesn’t do that.
I have read the memo several times.
The programs mentioned by the Council on Aging staff are affected by the freeze because they are programs, not assistance paid directly to individuals (see the footnote 1 in the memo.). The footnote defines the federal financial assistance to be paused: “(i) all forms of assistance listed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the definition of this term at 2 CFR 200.1; and (ii) assistance received or administered by recipients or subrecipients of any type except for assistance received directly by individuals.
CFR 200.1 defines Federal financial assistance to mean “[a]ssistance that recipients or subrecipients receive or administer” in various forms.
CFR 200.1 (1)
(i) The Federal financial assistance that a recipient receives directly from a Federal agency or indirectly from a pass-through entity, as described in § 200.101; or
(ii) The cost-reimbursement contract under the Federal Acquisition Regulation that a non-Federal entity receives directly from a Federal agency or indirectly from a pass-through entity, as described in § 200.101.
CFR 200.1 (2) The instrument setting forth the terms and conditions. The instrument is the grant agreement, cooperative agreement, other agreement for assistance covered in paragraph (2) of the definition of Federal financial assistance in this section, or the cost-reimbursement contract awarded under the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
THIS IS A LIE!!!!! It does NOT affect OAA funding!!!!!! Read the memo and the FAQ from OMB