{"id":9501,"date":"2013-10-08T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tashorg.wpengine.com\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2017-02-21T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:10:37","slug":"a-week-of-action-to-support-the-able-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tash.org\/a-week-of-action-to-support-the-able-act\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week of Action to Support the ABLE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">During the week of October 7<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 19px;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">, disability organizations and advocates will team up to advocate for the passage of the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act (S. 313\/HR. 647). This important legislation would utilize the 529 college education saving account program to establish a savings tool for individuals with disabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bill currently has 268 cosponsors in the House and 46 cosponsors in the Senate. <\/strong>This bipartisan, bicameral legislation is being led by Reps. Van Hollen, Crenshaw, Sessions, and McMorris Rodgers and Sens. Casey and Burr.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out if your two senators and representative are cosponsoring the ABLE Act of 2013 by clicking the links below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d113:S.313:@@@P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate ABLE Act Cosponsors<br \/>\n<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d113:HR00647:@@@P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House ABLE Act Cosponsors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ABLE Act will utilize the 529 college education saving account program, and give individuals with disabilities and their families the ability to save for the future just like every other American family. The ABLE Act \u00a0will help people with disabilities live full, productive lives in their communities <em>without losing benefits provided through private insurances, the Medicaid program, the supplemental security income program, the beneficiary\u2019s employment, and other sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ABLE-Act_Advocacy-Week-of-October-7th2.docx\">Click here to download an advocacy pack<\/a> that includes tools and resources to contact your members of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the week of October 7th, disability organizations and advocates will team up to advocate for the passage of the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act (S. 313\/HR. 647). This important legislation would utilize the 529 college education saving account program to establish a savings tool for individuals with disabilities. The bill currently has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}