For the first time in 30 years, Nebraska has eliminated the state’s waiting list for individuals seeking intellectual and developmental disability services that more than 2,700 individuals had been in line for when Gov. Jim Pillen promised to do away with the list last year. For decades, Nebraska children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been forced to wait as long as eight years for services like job coaching, training workshops, group homes, independent living support and respite care.

But as of Monday, there were zero Nebraskans in line for such services, Pillen and other state officials announced at a news conference in Lincoln, where Pillen called the waitlist's longtime existence "an embarrassment" and pledged the list "will be kept at zero" as long as he is governor.

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