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.

Administered by Your county IHSS office. Details read from California Department of Social Services and checked 2026-07-28.

How to apply

Apply with form SOC 295 through your county IHSS office.

Open the official page

We are not this agency and we cannot apply on anybody's behalf. Applying is free, and no one needs to pay a third party to do it.

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.

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.

Check this household against every programme