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I do believe you should take care of your parents when they are old. But to judge her for giving up her time and money to cook, clean and care for her parents so they don’t have to be in a nursing home. A nursing home cost $3500-6k a month from the government. Paying her $900-1500 a month to care for them is a substantial savings for the government, our tax dollars and rewards her for helping out. Nowadays, kids are selfish and do not care about their parents. This is also allows the parents to spend time with their families at home. I volunteer in a nursing home and its depressing when NO ONE comes to visit their old parents there..

BE GRATEFUL for this program. It is so wonderful and benefits everyone. Of course frauds should be prosecuted.

Sandra, I would dearly like to speak to you but don’t know how to get a hold of you via the internet.

I disagree. This program helps those who cannot afford the in-home care they need. Do you REALLY know the extent of the aging family members medical conditions? I doubt it. In addition to that, the Mother AND the grandmother need assistance. Which I imagine can become overwhelming for the family. This is NOT wrong, as In Home Supportive services is just that. Services and assistance received in the home versus someone being placed in a facility where they will become neglected, perhaps even abused.

I have a disabled son who is now 22, confined to a wheelchair. I retired early last year ( as he was no longer eligible to attend school ) so that I could stay home and care for him instead of throwing him in an adult day care program where again, he could become neglected, even abused. There is no way I could do that to him. I miss my job more than anyone knows. And my paycheck. HOWEVER IHSS allows me the income to be home with him and still pay our bills. Maybe not as comfortable as we were, but I thank God for this.

Whether a person is employed full time, part time or not at all, it is a sacrifice to stay home and care for their family members. If something were to happen to me, I would expect my older son to do the same and take over.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS, AND EXACTLY WHAT IHSS WAS CREATED FOR.

There is a lot of waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the program. I personally witnessed evidence of physical and fidiciary abuse by IHSS caregivers on the disabled, the elderly and children. A few of my clients even died due to this neglect.

There are times that I still see the faces of my clients in front of me and I have to push their poor images out of my mind. Yes, I reported everything I saw but to no avail…..I’m still asking WHY?

Mr. Browning you know I was telling the truth. I can only image what you told the civil grand jury. From what I understand workers in Lancaster wanted to speak to the Board of Supervisors recently about problems within DPSS but you were concerned that you would have to attend and didn’t want to come (I believe) to Lancaster. So concessions were made. What happened to transparency?

Until the IHSS program is really scrutinized and overhauled clients will continue to be victimized and abused. Fraud will continue to grow. However the catch is if you try to disclose what is happening you will be persecuted and villified. Or worse, you will lose your job.

Although I blame my job loss on Leo Terrell for his incompetent and unethical legal representation and practices…(Yes, Leo there is a Civil Service Commission and I would have known if I was going to be fired–you could have told me this instead of screaming at me during the mediation that I would be fired)…I believe that there were other forces at play.
I can safely say that Los Angeles County administrators really do not care about IHSS fraud or abuse. And they will make evry effort to cover it up.

P.S. Marcia, you told me to be “rest assured”. Honestly I never felt this way and after our last phone call I knew something was horribly wrong. It makes me feel so sad that you didn’t tell me what happened. I really was a good worker and all my evaluations proved this. I’m sorry that you felt you couldn’t tell me. I would have told you the truth.

The whole system needs to change it seems to be a great way for felons to work and have access to eldery people and the little money they have. Something needs to be done these people are stealing.

The prisons, especially the immoral for-profit prisons, are upside down. They are rewarded with more business, more employees, and bigger budgets when they fail to do their jobs of rehabiliation and ex-offenders re-offend and are sent back to prison. Failed tough-on-crime policies, like the three-strikes law that does not work as voters intended, are bankrupting us.

Donovan prison reduced their recidivism rate from 70% to 21% through their rehab programs. At $50,000 per inmate per year, consider the savings we realized because those people did not return to prison. We should measure the success of rehab, drug, and educational programs and fund those that work. It would save us millions in tax payer dollars and more important, prevent new crime and new victims.

To those people who complain that ex-offenders should get a job, be grateful that many of them are changing diapers for the elderly and infirm.