(a) The Commissioner of Social Services, within available appropriations, may establish and operate a Social Work In-Home Support program for persons with disabilities (1) who are between the ages of eighteen and sixty-four years, and (2) who meet the eligibility requirements specified in sections 17b-4(a)-1 to 17b-4(a)-6, inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies. Such eligibility requirements with respect to income and assets shall not apply to persons eligible for medical assistance under section 17b-597 who were receiving community-based services on October 1, 2000.
(b) Any person participating in a Medicaid home and community-based services program shall not be eligible for the Social Work In-Home Support program, unless a particular service is not otherwise available under a Medicaid home and community-based services program.
(c) The Commissioner of Social Services shall implement the policies and procedures necessary to carry out the provisions of subsection (a) of this section while in the process of adopting such policies and procedures in regulation form, provided notice of intent to adopt the regulations is published on the department's Internet web site and the eRegulations System not later than twenty days after implementation. Such policies and procedures shall be valid until the time final regulations are effective.
(P.A. 00-213, S. 6; P.A. 17-20, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 17-20 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “community-based services program” with “Social Work In-Home Support program”, deleted former Subsec. (b) re eligibility for personal care assistance, added new Subsec. (b) re eligibility for Social Work In-Home Support program, and amended Subsec. (c) by replacing provision re publication of notice in Connecticut Law Journal with provision re publication of notice on department's Internet web site and eRegulations System, effective July 1, 2017.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 319mm - Assistance to the Disabled
Section 17b-597. - Working persons with disabilities program. Eligibility. Regulations.
Section 17b-598. - Waiver for persons unable to maintain work effort for involuntary reasons.
Section 17b-600. (Formerly Sec. 17-109). - Optional state supplementation program. Eligibility.
Section 17b-602. (Formerly Sec. 17-116). - Eligibility of applicant having life care contract.
Section 17b-603. (Formerly Sec. 17-124). - Incapable applicant.
Section 17b-604. (Formerly Sec. 17-134). - Reciprocal agreements.
Section 17b-605. (Formerly Sec. 17-581). - Personal care assistance program.
Section 17b-608. (Formerly Sec. 17-608). - “Persons with disabilities” defined.
Section 17b-616. (Formerly Sec. 17-582). - Family support grant program.
Section 17b-617. - Pilot program to provide home care services to disabled persons.
Section 17b-651. (Formerly Sec. 17-661). - Bureau of Rehabilitation Services. Disbursement of funds.
Section 17b-652. - Transfer of Bureau of Rehabilitation Services.