A piece of the pie? No thank you. We need another pie. Feb 11. 2010 | Comments (0)
Because of a fiscal shortfall, The NJ Division of Disability is moving to disqualify roughly 60% of its TBI Fund recipients: individuals with stroke, many with aphasia, who have benefitted from it over the past 5 years. The TBI Fund draws money from the Division of Motor Vehicles, where $ .50 of every person who renews auto registration is delegated to the service of people with acquired brain injury. As a funder of last resort, it has permitted almost 3,000 people to receive physical, occupational, and speech therapy when third party payors withdraw support. (In the interest of full disclosure, some of Speaking of Aphasia's clients are funded by this organization) Now, underfunded and beleaguered, the Fund is hurting. How discriminatory for the Division to reverse its original definition of TBI, which included stroke and aphasia, at the point when simply increasing the DMV allocation by just $ .50 would essentially solve the problem. What is most...