<p>Congress has voted since 2020 to provide Elder Justice Act programs with important funding. We need to show how important keeping this funding is for programs. For FY2024 funding was kept at $15 million, the same as funding in FY23. In th current FY2025 bills, the House eliminates funding for APS while the Senate maintains the $15 million in funding but does not explicitly cite use. This is significantly less than the more than $188 million for Elder Justice Act programs in FY22 through the American Rescue Act Plan. We view this as the bare minimum needed.</p>
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Tell your Members of Congress about the importance of Adult Protective Services today! You can click below to email a message or to make a phone call. Please feel free to edit the text of the letter and to add your personal story!

I write to express support for inclusion of Adult Protective Services (APS) program formula grants in federal fiscal year 2025 appropriations. I urge Congress to provide at least $100 million for APS formula grants in any final bipartisan appropriations legislation. Funding was passed for FY 2024, FY2023, the bipartisan Consolidated Appropriations Act in 2020 and the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 which provided APS programs with $188 million in both FY 2021 and FY 2022. These funds have allowed APS programs to bolster capacity, staffing, and services as the number and complexity of reports increases. While this is only a small investment, cutting funding would ignore this critical issue. In fact, in 2021, over 1.34 million reports of elder abuse were made nationally to APS programs. It is essential to our national effort to combat abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults and people with disabilities to provide adequate funding for APS programs. The funding level currently in progress would result in 16 states receiving only $103,721. An increase is needed to sustain services and maintain capacity. This is not the time to weaken our efforts to combat the sinister force of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults and people with disabilities in America.

Fully Fund Adult Protective Services

Tell your Members of Congress about the importance of Adult Protective Services today! You can click below to email a message or to make a phone call. Please feel free to edit the text of the letter and to add your personal story!

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Dear Office Holder (names will be automatically added on each email),