INDIANAPOLIS — Roughly 30 home health care workers stormed the office of the Family and Social Services Administration Thursday—demanding to know why a program they call a lifeline is being cut. Many said the impromptu discussion with the agency’s deputy director left them unheard and were left with more questions than answers.
”We feel like they’re kind of not being transparent enough,” Scott Adams said.
Adams, who utilizes a wheelchair, said his wife is able to care for him under a state Medicaid program that pays parents, guardians, and spouses of disabled Hoosiers to do so.
”My wife is literally the prime income of our home,” Adams said.
He said if that program goes away, he and his wife will lose their home.
”It affects our incomes, it affects our livelihood, and they’re still not listening,” Adams said.
”This will greatly affect my family,” Debbie Spurgeon, who cares for her husband, said.
According to Spurgeon, her husband is bedridden and needs 24/7 care. She’s compensated to care for him part time, but also works another job to make ends meet.