Caregiver payment
In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
California pays a provider to help someone stay in their own home, and the state says plainly that the provider can be a family member. The person receiving care hires them. They must be eligible for Medi-Cal and be assessed by the county as needing the help: being related to them is not by itself enough.
What we screen on
These are the rules the checker actually uses. Every one carries the source it was read from and the date it was read, so you can check us.
- Available in CA.
What we will not tell you
We will not tell you that you qualify for this, because that is the agency's decision and not ours. We screen against the rules above, we show which ones we could check, and we say plainly when a rule exists that we do not hold.