2-10/ss Fiscal Intermediary (FI) Agency Choosing a FI agency is an option under the Aged and Disabled Waiver. This option is designed for participants who desire more independence and responsibility for the personal assistance services they receive.
These estimates are many times higher than the 3.8% of the adult population who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in Gallup Daily tracking in the first four months of this year.
Disheartening research from the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey reveals that 41% of transgender participants (2,644 out of 6,450) had attempted, at some point, to take their own lives. Sexual assault was the biggest cause, followed by physical assault, harassment in school, and job loss due to bias.