Illinois’s Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD) program helps provide critical financial support for the seniors and people with disabilities with the fewest resources, including refugees and asylees.

Today, the income support available to these Illinoisans is simply not enough—the program has been ignored for decades, forcing people who receive this assistance to live below the federal poverty level. In this time of COVID-19 and dramatic inflation, we need to ensure that these Illinoisans do not continue to fall through the cracks.

The Illinois General Assembly is putting together the state budget right now.

We need you to tell them to support an increase in the AABD program that would ensure that seniors and people with disabilities have an income equal to the federal poverty level.

Click HERE to look up your State Senator and your State Representative. Call them at their Springfield Office and tell them to support seniors and people with disabilities by increasing AABD assistance.