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Title

California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program: Who is Served?

Authors

Debi Waterstone
Taewoon Kang
Cristina Flores
Candace Howes, Connecticut CollegeFollow
Charlene Harrington
Robert Newcomer

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2004

Comments

Initially published by the California Healthcare Foundation by the Center for Personal Assistance Services

© 2004 UC Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Full text PDF available at both: http://www.pascenter.org/documents/IHSS_Final_Report.pdf and http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/homecare/

Abstract

Governor Schwarzenegger's preliminary 2004-05 Budget Bill proposed to eliminate a component of California's In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program serving approximately 68,000 individuals. This component, known as the Residual Program, included Protective Supervision and Domestic Care services and services provided by parents and spouses. Under the then existing regulations and the state's approved state plan for Medicaid, these services did not qualify for shared financing with the Medicaid program and were thus funded solely by state and county sources. The objective of the administration's proposal was to obtain an estimated net savings from the IHSS program in Fiscal Year 2005 of $366 million.

Recommended Citation

Waterstone, Debi; Kang, Taewoon; Flores, Cristina; Howes, Candace; Harrington, Charlene; and Newcomer, Robert, "California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program: Who is Served?" (2004). Economics Faculty Publications. 5.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/econfacpub/5