Senate Finance Chairman Bodi White says it was a big mistake when lawmakers rushed to approve a budget on the final day of the session. It resulted in a 100-million dollar cut to the Louisiana Department of Health at a time when the state has a surplus. White says if he had to do it again, he wouldn’t have brought the budget bill up for a vote in the waning minutes of the session…
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LDH tells lawmakers the cut will result in a loss of services for Medicaid recipients and a loss of funding for some nursing homes, a graduate medical education program, and mobile cancer screenings.
Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell is alarmed to see a cut in funding to Our Lady of Angels Hospital in Bogalusa…
White is calling on the governor to use his line-item authority and remove the cut from the budget so funding could be restored to L-D-H.
State Treasurer John Schroder is calling on the Louisiana Cash Management Review Board to develop a plan for all state agencies to accept electronic payment options like PayPal and Venmo.
By law, the state treasurer can make the electronic payment process available to state agencies but he can’t require them to use it.
According to CreditCards-dot-com Louisiana has the third highest credit card debt in the country. CreditCards-dot-com Senior Industry Analyst Ted Rossman says using a personal loan as a form of debt consolidation and working with a reputable nonprofit credit counseling agency can help make payments manageable. He also suggests a zero percent balance transfer credit card.
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