·State program
Personal Care Aide Services
Personal Care Aide Services provides up to eight hours daily of personal care aide assistance to eligible District of Columbia residents with disabilities, up to 1,040 hours per calendar year.
What you get
Services, as recorded:
- up to eight (8) hours of PCA services per day
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 District of Columbia?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
What counts as a qualifying disability or level of care need, and what documentation shows it?
- 03
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 04
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 05
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.
- 06
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 07
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
“must be determined based on each beneficiary's inability to perform activities of daily living without assistance”
dhcf.dc.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
State residency
“applicants must be residents of the District and must meet non-financial and financial eligibility requirements”
dhcf.dc.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Submit the Integrated Application for Medical Assistance (Non-MAGI eligibility category, e.g. aged/blind/disabled/Long Term Care)