Make Your Voice Heard! Advocating for older adults starts with action! Take a moment to send all 3 action alerts--each one plays a crucial role in ensuring vital policies move forward. Your voice helps shape decisions that impact aging services and communities. Stay informed by following the bills on this page, and let lawmakers know that supporting older adults is a priority!
 

Key Issues

Protect Medicaid and SNAP: Support Older Adults and Families in Need

Although the reconciliation bill has passed, critical programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) still face ongoing threats of funding cuts and policy restrictions. These programs are essential for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and families with low incomes.

Medicaid ensures access to home and community-based services, long-term care, and critical health services. SNAP helps millions afford healthy food, preventing hunger and improving quality of life.

We must urge Congress to continue protecting and investing in these programs. 

Send a letter to your Representatives, take action now! 
Oppose the Fragmentation and Defunding of Older Americans Act Programs

The Trump Administration’s leaked FY 2026 budget shows a deeply troubling plan to tear apart the Older Americans Act (OAA)—a 60-year-old, unified system of support for older adults and caregivers—and split its programs across two different federal agencies. 

Instead of maintaining the OAA’s coordinated delivery model, the Administration plans to: 

  • Move nutrition programs to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
  • Move the rest of the OAA programs—like in-home care, transportation, caregiver respite, and elder justice—to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a large agency ill-suited to these community-based services. 

At the same time, the budget proposes to zero out critical aging programs (including Long-Term-Care Ombudsman and elder justice programs like Adult Protective Services) that support older adults’ health, safety, and independence. 

This is not efficiency—it’s dismantling. We must speak up NOW to stop this plan. Tell Congress to keep OAA programs together and fully funded. 

Urge Congress to Protect Social Security

For nearly 90 years, Social Security has been a bedrock promise, ensuring that Americans who work hard can retire with dignity, weather disability, or support their families after the loss of a loved one. But right now, that promise is at risk.

Here’s what’s at stake:
  • Over 70 million people rely on Social Security—including older adults, people with disabilities, children, and widows.
  • 1 in 4 older adults depend on Social Security for 90% of their income.
  • Social Security lifts more than 22 million people out of poverty each year—including over 16 million older adults.
And yet...
  • The Social Security Administration (SSA) is serving more people with less funding.
  • Proposed cuts would eliminate 7,000 staff and close field offices—limiting access to benefits, especially for the most vulnerable.
 
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Key Bills

Key Congressional Legislation

Latest Status: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. (5/21/2025)
Latest Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (1/8/2025)

Key Illinois Legislation

Latest Status: Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa (4/22/2025)
Latest Status: Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0001 (6/9/2025)
Latest Status: Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments (3/21/2025)

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