Tag Archives: Adult-Foster-Care

MassHealth Report

March 15, 2007 – 12:53 am

Good news! There is hope that caregivers in the Adult Foster Care program may eventually be recognized as the asset they are. Several sections of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute's report indicate that MassHealth and the State legislature may be at last "getting it" even if not for the more honorable reason. Rebalance Long-Term Care [...]

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Complaint

March 6, 2007 – 5:00 pm

After having been unemployed for a year, I was found eligible for MassHealth insurance benefits the next 2 years. But in 2004, a supervisor in the MassHealth Springfield office decided that because of my participation in the AFC program, I was "working". I explained that my situation was not anything like a "real" job in [...]

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Background

March 4, 2007 – 11:53 pm

January 2001 I resigned from my full time position of over 12 years, to become a host caregiver in the MassHealth AFC program. After meeting the specified requirements, I was approved as a host family and began receiving the $19 a day tax free stipend for providing personal care assistance and 24 hours a day [...]

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Introduction

March 4, 2007 – 2:12 am

In 1999 the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Olmstead v. L.C. case that the Americans with Disabilities Act may require states to provide services in the least restrictive setting possible (i.e. community-based services), rather than institutional placements for individuals with disabilities. Justice Ginsberg said that states are required to place persons with disabilities [...]

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