Our aging Baby Boomers are facing urgent issues from unemployment to housing to healthcare and more. There are no resources for LGBT aging and no local research has been done in the greater Sacramento area. To provide our elderly LGBT citizens with a safe and lovinig place in a final destination would promote self-empowered dignity and improve lives by the development of a Gayborhood-friendly Freedom Village.

My sister is a hearing impaired adult, her hearing aides are broken beyond repair and medicaid refuses to replace them and she can't hear a car coming!

The ticket to work progam Highly Solicited and Highly promoted thru the SSD/SSI program is Misleading...the SSD/SSI information and pamplets promote that persons that go to work thru this Ticket to work program WILL NOT LOOSE any Benifits while doing this program During the TRIAL period and that Earnings WILL NOT affect their benifits! However this is NOT a Government program despite the Misleading information it is a FLORIDA STATE program...Individuals that take on employemnt thru this proagram WILL LOOSE ANY AND ALL BENIFITS that they recieve from the STATE of FL. I took on a 10 hour a week job and immediately LOST my food stamps, Extra help with my perscriptions and my Share of cost jumped up to $1001. a month. I was forced to quit my job for medical reasons and due to All the benifits I was loosing...then after quitting my job My Monthly benifit from SSD was dropped from $855. a month to $467. starting next month...due to I now owe Back Medicare premiums for the months I worked. I had a total of 9 days notice of this action and when I called SSD they informed me there was NOTHING that They could do as this was NOT a federal program...this was a STATE of FL. program. I have No right to appeal and when contacting Dept of family & services they refer me back to SSD. in the meantime I am being victimized Not only financially, but emotionally and phsyically as well by this. When contacting Governor Rick Scott with my letter...he simply FORWARDED my complaint letter and was NO HELP AT ALL. I wonder Just how many other SSD/SSI recipients are being affected by this? NO ONE SEEMS to Care...I tried to do the right thing and help my financial situation and it only caused me MORE financial Hardship, emotional stress and now I will not even be able to afford my mortgage...Now what? I Feel this is Not only Misleading...but it targets those of us on SSD/SSI for Victimization by our OWN STATE OF FL.

Please increase the funding levels of tested programs addressing homelessness in Minnesota and administered by the Department of Human Services.

years ago i was an eligjble receipient of HHA; my 4 children and i were able to move into a 3 bedroom apartment and with assistance from the state and a part time job i paid $320.00 for our unit. our family decided to let their dad back into our family; so we reported HIS income, and relinquised financial assistance from the state; so with HIS income and my part time income our rent was raised to $730.00- still cheap; but we felt it unfair that other families in the same housing area;drove nice cars; wore nice clothes and had more people in their units then allowed-probably didnt report income changes. there should be an annual mandatory re-eligibilty for HHA. and add a back to work program for ALL adults tenants. today our family is renting in the private sector and struggling but paying monthly rent of $2500.00 for a 5bdrm 3 bath home

years ago i was an eligjble receipient of HHA; my 4 children and i were able to move into a 3 bedroom apartment and with assistance from the state and a part time job i paid $320.00 for our unit. our family decided to let their dad back into our family; so we reported HIS income, and relinquised financial assistance from the state; so with HIS income and my part time income our rent was raised to $730.00- still cheap; but we felt it unfair that other families in the same housing area;drove nice cars; wore nice clothes and had more people in their units then allowed-probably didnt report income changes. there should be an annual mandatory re-eligibilty for HHA. and add a back to work program for ALL adults tenants.

I and many other public employees' pensions and health care are threatened by Illinois legislators and governors that have utilized our pension fund like their personal credit card. We should not be penalized for their mistakes since we NEVER missed a pension payment and held up our end of the bargain.

In America the disabled and elderly poor who are on government assistance are living very much below the poverty level. No matter how much they might want to work, they cannot. They are America's most vulnerable and should not be living in such misery in the richest country in the world.

Boston's bicycle network currently has a gaping hole at its center which limits the functionality of existing bicycle lanes in the city. Tell Mayor Menino that Boston deserves a new "Bicyclists' Urban Ring" which would fully connect the many bike lanes that radiate outwards from Boston Common towards neighborhoods throughout the Boston Metropolitan Area. This ring would be composed of two primary parts: 1. Boston Common "Bicyclists' Urban Ring": Separated 2-way cycle tracks would encircle the entire perimeter of the Common and the Public Garden with spur connections down Tremont, Charles, and Arlington Streets. 2. Beacon Hill Cycle Track: A two-way cycle track on Charles St in Beacon Hill would connect Cambridge Street, Esplanade, and Longfellow Bridge bicycle traffic to Boston Common. One traffic lane would need to be removed to achieve this goal, but it could be recovered during rush hour if parallel parking was not allowed during peak commute times. Adding these crucial links would greatly increase the number of safe options for bicyclists traveling through downtown, without inconveniencing cars or pedestrians. Including bicycle traffic lights along these routes would also maximize safety for bicyclists and pedestrians. I urge you to sign this petition and voice your support for improved bicycle safety in downtown Boston.

Yes, we have a nonprofit camp in Wakefield that the toll road willl be an added expense for us to travel there.

The Veteran Administration claims backlog is unacceptable and effects all Veterans from all services and their families. The backlog needs to be reduced in about every Regional Office in this Country. VETERANS deserve the benefits they were PROMISED.

The entitlements: Social Security and Medicare is what many Americans paid into and rely on. For those Americans who have paid into it this should be their right. Republicans' and Democrats' in Congress should not cut Social Security or Medicare.