Wednesday, April 29, 2009

More Budget News

The Raleigh News and Observer reports that today Governor Perdue, having looked over the revenue collections from April 15, has decided that the 2008-2009 deficit is about a billion dollars worse than feared and has ordered that all state workers will have their annual pay reduced ½ % , including judges, legislators and administrative personnel. Also, there will be unpaid time off – furloughs. This is just to get through the end of fiscal 2008-2009.

It appears ever more likely that the $55 million (or perhaps more) in cuts to the PCS program for the next two fiscal years will be implemented. This makes it imperative for Home Care agencies to get efficient.