The states contended the company falsely advertised the hearing aid and sold it without approval from the Food and Drug Administration. In home service An estimated 1,500 developmentally disabled people in Colorado are eligible for home-based care services. That is the result of a decision by a federal judge that criticized Colorado for withholding those services from the developmentally disabled under one state program while there were vacancies in another program. Helen King, one of three parents who filed a lawsuit against the state in 1991 on behalf of their children, sued because her daughter couldn't get home-care services under a Medicaid program. Instead, she would be placed in a nursing home.
Home services can include personal care, homemaking services and respite care.
Meanwhile, no waiting list existed for home-based care in a program for the elderly, blind and disabled. King's daughter met the eligibility requirements for both programs but was excluded from the second because she was classified as developmentally disabled. Back to top of page Protest in Tuzla About 1,000 disabled veterans and families of soldiers killed in the Bosnian war blocked traffic in Tuzla recently until the government agreed to pay monthly benefits as promised. Disability benefits and survivors' pensions hadn't been paid since last December. When thousands of angry veterans converged on the capital, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said the country couldn't afford to pay all the benefits but would pay two months.