·State program
Arkansas Lifespan Respite Voucher Program
The Arkansas Lifespan Respite Voucher Program provides financial assistance vouchers to family caregivers providing full-time care to individuals of any age with a disability or special need.
What you get
Services, as recorded:
- $300 per award term, maximum $1,200 per calendar year
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Arkansas?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — parent, spouse, sibling, grandparent, other relative, or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
What counts as a qualifying disability or level of care need, and what documentation shows it?
- 04
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 05
Do you need to live with the person receiving care, and how is that verified?
- 06
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists 40 hours)?
- 07
Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
- 08
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 09
Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?
Who qualifies, in the source’s words
Where our record has a direct quote from the official source, here it is — otherwise, this is our best reading of the rule.
Disability of the person receiving care
“The care recipient has a “special need” (please see explanation box on the following page).”
humanservices.arkansas.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Living with the person receiving care
“Respite funds must be requested by the primary caregivers who resides full time in the same household.”
humanservices.arkansas.gov →Work hours
“Family caregiver provides full-time care (40 hours or more) weekly”
humanservices.arkansas.gov →Relationship to the person receiving care
“The family caregiver provides unpaid care for a family member, friend, or neighbor (broadening the definition of “family”); both individuals live in Arkansas.”
humanservices.arkansas.gov →State residency
“both individuals live in Arkansas.”
humanservices.arkansas.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Fill out the application and return it via email, fax, or postal mail, along with a W-9 form.