In-Dwelling Supportive Services (IHSS)

Eligibility and Application

If you are a California resident, yous may exist eligible for IHSS if:

  • Y'all live in your own home
  • Yous get Medi-Cal benefits
  • Y'all have a disability and need personal help during your day, and
  • You need IHSS to stay safely in your domicile equally an culling to out-of-home placement, such as assisted living or nursing facilities.

If you practice not become Medi-Cal yet, learn more nigh qualifying for it in DB101'southward Medi-Cal commodity.

Living in your own dwelling house

Your dwelling house is the place yous choose to live. Some examples of places that IHSS considers a dwelling house are a house, an flat, a mobile dwelling, a room in a dormitory, or a room with board. You do not live "in your own home" if yous live in an acute care hospital, long-term intendance facility, or customs care facility. If you live in one of those facilities, it may be possible to apply for IHSS and move into your own domicile. IHSS can do a preliminary needs assessment while you lot are still staying at the facility. Once yous movement out of the facility and into your ain abode, IHSS volition do another assessment in your home.

Applying for IHSS

  1. If you lot already accept Medi-Cal or in one case y'all are canonical for it, telephone call or visit your canton In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) office to complete an IHSS application. One time IHSS gets the application, a caseworker will contact you and schedule a time to visit your domicile and sympathize your needs.
  2. Your caseworker will come up to your home and exercise a needs assessment to figure out if you are eligible for IHSS and what services you volition go. The caseworker will ask near your mental and physical abilities and limitations; place the tasks you can perform safely on your own; identify the tasks you might demand help with; and evaluate your living and social situation.
  3. Subsequently the needs cess, IHSS volition contact you to let you know if you take been approved or denied. If you lot are approved, IHSS will besides let you know the kinds of services and number of hours you will go. If services are denied or you lot think that you need more IHSS hours than were approved, you have the right to appeal. The appeals procedure is outlined on the back of the notice you get.

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