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approval. again, mippa sounds for medicare improvements for patients and providers act. there are two main things, increase low-income subsidy, and that s subsidizing part d plans for drug co-pays and premiums. and also to sign people up for medicare savings programs. it happens to cover the cost of medicare part a and part b premiums. we passed these dollars through to our high cap, self-help for the elderly. they re uniquely positioned with their expertise and infrastructure to administer this program. the social security administration estimates that the the extra help provided by the programs can be worth up to $4,000 a year in savings for participants. we have had this program for a couple of years now. last year self-help had over 166 folks they helped with one of these either the low-income subsidy or medical savings program applications. it s a small amount of money, but one that has a great impact. happen to answer any questions the commission has. thank ....
myself, who have major disabilities but otherwise capable of producing something in society. we have a political problem in this country, not an economic problem. that political problem has created a debt, federal debt, approaching $20 trillion because of the wars primarily. we have a problem in this city with the hospital industry, deciding if they want to throw out the people that are too ill to be taken care of unless it s 24-hour care and they don t want to pay for that. and this hospital industry is making millions of dollars, though they claim they re not for profit. as it was told at the last health board hearing at this issue, the no, this was in the supervisors chambers. sutter healthcare has $14 billion in the bank. 44 executives making over $1 million a year. the last i saw, kaiser had $9 billion in the bank and they have million-dollar executives. so they want to kick this problem out to the city and let us take care of it. i worked for the presidio and t ....
ihss moe going up. the the health benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, i ve jumped to the wrong one. pardon me. so if we look at this one, what we ll see is we ve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94.6 to 117.8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. this is due to additional dignity fund. we have a fairly stable ihss public authority payment. this is the health benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. and then, the other areas of the budget are really pretty much staying roughly where they are, just kind of basic inflation that adds little bits here and there. commissioner loo? commissioner loo: i have a question. the question is the ihss consortium, the program in 18-19 compared with 17-18 is reduced by 25%. yes, and so this is the item that was the error that i mentioned, so we would add $4.5 million to the 18-19 number. and just to say it again, and what happens when we put this together, wa ....
. so those have increased significantly, and that s really due to the to the ihss moe going up. the the health benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, i ve jumped to the wrong one. pardon me. so if we look at this one, what we ll see is we ve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94.6 to 117.8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. this is due to additional dignity fund. we have a fairly stable ihss public authority payment. this is the health benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. and then, the other areas of the budget are really pretty much staying roughly where they are, just kind of basic inflation that adds little bits here and there. commissioner loo? commissioner loo: i have a question. the question is the ihss consortium, the program in 18-19 compared with 17-18 is reduced by 25%. yes, and so this is the item that was the error that i mentioned, so we would add $4.5 million to the 18-19 ....
she s looking at extending the initial compliance deadline for the checklist on that just to make sure that there s ample time for this program to get upcoming we think this program is going to run out by the next 8 to 10 years we want to get those initial foundation infrastructure pieces into place and on the maneuvered soft story implementation we mentioned that tooerp two we re down to have 35 non-compliant buildings out of 5 hundred and 50 so we re at 93 or 94 compliance rate those buildings out of compliance are elected to be scheduled for code compliant directors in early march we re hopefully between now and march that number of 35 will drop significantly lower we obviously want as few buildings out of compliance as possible and that does highlight the reality that for tier 3 that has 35 buildings and the deadline this coming september 5th this year we still have been 19 hundred buildings that are out of compliance so we ll be initially a free press outreach prog ....