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May,
2002
 Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
On May 30, 2002 the Pennsylvania Waiting
List Campaign and Community Advocacy Coalition (CAC) filed a Federal
Class Action Lawsuit against the Commonwealth on behalf of children
and adults with mental retardation who are on waiting lists for
community services. The civil-rights suit contends that Gov.
Schweiker's proposed state budget reneges on Gov. Tom Ridge's 1999
promise to spend $853 million over five years to expand residential
and vocational services for retarded citizens and reduce long
waiting lists. The lawsuit also contends Pennsylvania is violating
Social Security's Medicaid program rules for services to the
mentally retarded through not providing small, community-based
Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded (ICF/MRs) in
a prompt manner, thus depriving the mental retardation population of
those services to which they are entitled and asks a judge to order
the state to fund them.
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