AoA Tribal Allocations

The AoA has posted its FY 2005 Tribal Allocations.   And while you’re checking those out, take a look at AoA’s FY 2006 Budget Request, which totals $1,369,028,000.  Interestingly, AoA requested $154,000 LESS than the amount actually funded by Congress in FY 2005, even though the number of persons 65+ (the primary age group served by AoA programs) is currently increasing by about 400,000 each year.  To put AoA’s 1.37 billion dollar request in perspective, we’re spending 5 billion a month on the war in Iraq. 

The FY 2006 Budget Request includes:

• $1,250,192,000 for State and Community-Based Services, the same as the FY 2005 level.
• $32,702,000 for Services for Native Americans, the same as the FY 2005 level.
• $19,360,000 (+$72,000 over the FY 2005 level) for Protection of Vulnerable Older Americans.
• $23,843,000 for Program Innovations (+$196,000 over the FY 2005 enacted level when you exclude one-time congressional earmarks).
• $25,052,000, for other Innovation and Demonstration grants, including Alzheimer’s disease demonstrations and aging network support, the same as the FY 2005 level.

AoA doesn’t directly (i.e. on its Web page) ‘fess up what programs it plans to cut in FY 2006. You’ll have to read the full budget  document to figure that out.