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  • HOUSING SERVICES

HOUSING SERVICES

Housing Stabilization Services is a Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities and seniors find and keep housing. Housing stabilization services are state plan (not waiver) Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS).

COVERED HOUSING SERVICES
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here are three services are provided within Housing Stabilization Services. They are:
1. Housing Consultation – service to develop a person-centered plan for people without MA case management services
2. Housing Transition – service that supports a person to find housing
3. Housing Sustaining – service that supports a person to maintain housing

ELIGIBILITY FOR HOUSING SERVICES

 

HA member is eligible for housing stabilization services if they meet all of the following needs-based criteria:

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Be on Medical Assistance (MA)

MINIMUM AGE

Be 18 years old or older

DISABILITY

Have a documented disability or disabling condition

ASSISTANCE

Be assessed to require assistance with at least one of the following areas resulting from the presence of a disability or a long-term or indefinite condition:
Communication, Mobility, Decision-making or Managing challenging behaviors

HOUSING INSTABILITY

Be experiencing housing instability, evidenced by one of the following risk factors: a. Homeless; or
b. Currently transitioning, or has recently transitioned, from an institution or licensed or registered setting or
c. At risk of homelessness
d. At risk of institutionalization – meets an institutional level of care/eligible for any Waiver Service