Many cash-strapped states are cutting spending on in-home health care services for disabled residents to close their mounting budget deficits, the Wall Street Journal reports.

South Carolina has imposed some of the biggest cuts, with some residents seeing their in-home services reduced by as much as half (Ansberry, Wall Street Journal, 5/20).

In his latest budget proposal, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) proposed $750 million in cuts to the state's In-Home Supportive Services program, which provides in-home care for disabled and elderly residents (California Healthline, 5/17).