Letters - DisabilityLetters Letter to President Biden commending his support for home and community-based services in the State of the Union Address.

March 22, 2022

Lutheran Services in America-Disability Network joined a coalition of disability and aging organizations to thank President Biden for highlighting the need to expand home and community-based services in the State of the Union Address and call on policymakers to provide long-term funding to expand services.

Letters - DisabilityLetters Letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure

March 17, 2022

Lutheran Services in America-Disability Network joined a coalition of disability and aging organizations to urge the Administration to provide at least 120 days advance notice when it intends to lift the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE).

Letters Letters to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator on the Agency’s New SNF Initiative

March 3, 2022

Letters to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator on the Agency’s New SNF Initiative
Lutheran Services in America CEO Charlotte Haberaecker sent a letter to Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure.  In it, she expressed our concerns that the proposals regarding minimum staffing requirements and punitive enforcement for SNFs will exacerbate the current crisis our members face and lead to additional nursing home closures and fewer older Americans being able to access the care they need, and asking that as CMS embarks on this work that the views and experiences of our network be included in the research study being planned in the coming year that will inform the proposed rules around minimum staffing.

Letters - DisabilityLetters Letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

February 4, 2022

Lutheran Services in America-Disability Network joined a coalition of disability organizations to urge Congress to permanently adopt the changes to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC) that were made in the American Rescue Plan (ARP).

Letters Letter to White House staff requesting assistance with anticompetitive practices in direct care staffing agencies

January 22, 2022

Lutheran Services in America joined with other national nonprofits to urge the White House to help address direct care temporary staffing agencies charging supercompetitive prices during the public health emergency.

Letters Letters to President Biden, Leader Schumer, and Speaker Pelosi, urging their support for the Employee Retention Tax Credit Reinstatement Act (H.R. 6161)

January 18, 2022

Lutheran Services in America joined with other national nonprofits to urge key leaders to support legislation restoring the Employee Retention Tax Credit for all of 2021.

Letters Letters to President Biden, Leader Schumer, and Speaker Pelosi, urging their support for workforce and service provisions in reconciliation bill

October 14, 2021

Lutheran Services in America CEO Charlotte Haberaecker today sent letters to key leaders, urging their support of provisions in the reconciliation package which would help address the health and human services workforce crisis and in turn, would enable these services to continue or be expanded for people in communities across the country.

Letters Letter to key Congressional committee leaders urging support for programs benefitting foster families and youth

September 22, 2021

Lutheran Services in America joined with other national nonprofits to ask these Committee leaders to extend three key provisions from the Supporting Foster Youth and Families During the Pandemic Act.

Letters Letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding Immigrant Visa Prioritization

August 17, 2021

Lutheran Services in America joined with other national nonprofits to ask State Department to amend the Immigrant Visa Prioritization update and prioritize the entry of foreign-trained nurses and health care workers into the United States, rather than leaving them in the lowest priority tier for the visa authorization process for entry.

Letters Letter to Secretary of Labor Martin Walsh on Nonprofit Sector Employment and Wage Data

August 6, 2021

Lutheran Services in America joined with other national nonprofits to ask the Department of Labor to address critical gaps in data and evidence on nonprofit sector employment and wages by directing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to provide quarterly data on nonprofit employment and wages through its Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).