QUESTION
How will budget cuts affect older immigrant adults who don't speak English?
1:19:05
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70 sec
The Department for the Aging aims to maintain service continuity for older adults despite budget cuts, but the specific impact on older immigrant adults remains unclear.
- The New York City Department for the Aging prioritizes the needs of older adults, including those who are immigrants and do not speak English.
- The department's goal is to achieve service continuity without cutting services and has been successful so far.
- However, Penney Vachiraprapun, General Counsel for the New York City Department for the Aging, suggests that discussing budget specifics is beyond the scope of the current conversation.
- Council Member Gale Brewer concludes that the specific impacts of budget cuts on older immigrant adults are not known at this moment and may be addressed in future budget hearings.
Gale Brewer
1:19:05
Other question is budget cuts to this population.
1:19:08
The mayor has a lot of budget cuts.
1:19:10
I don't support his budget cuts.
1:19:12
But do you know can you be specific as to how this community, older adults, who are immigrants, not speaking language, will be impacted by your budget cuts, which I know you don't like OMB imposes them, and I don't like them either.
1:19:26
But do you have any indication on how this population will be impacted?
Anya Herasme
1:19:31
So in so in general budget cuts, our priorities always the needs of the older adults, whether they're immigrants or any older adults.
1:19:38
Right?
1:19:38
And so we are always thinking about service continuity and how we've looked at how we can achieve those goals without without cutting services.
1:19:46
So so far, we've been successful in that.
Gale Brewer
1:19:49
And You're not cutting any services at all despite the budget cuts.
1:19:52
We
Penney Vachiraprapun
1:19:53
we we aren't here to speak about the budget, and sadly, you have
Gale Brewer
1:19:57
a a
Penney Vachiraprapun
1:19:58
social a worker and a lawyer here.
1:19:59
We've had numbers.
Maryna Lysenko
1:20:00
So Okay.
Gale Brewer
1:20:01
But so you don't know right now.
Crystal Hudson
1:20:02
That's that's good lawyer speak.
Gale Brewer
1:20:07
But at this moment, you don't know how these budget cuts will impact.
1:20:11
We will obviously maybe ask that during the budget hearings.
1:20:13
Is that what you're telling
Nilbia Coyote
1:20:14
us next week?
Gale Brewer
1:20:14
Okay.