·State program
Consumer-Directed Care Plus
Consumer-Directed Care Plus is a Medicaid program offering self-directed personal assistance services that allows recipients to hire and pay neighbors, friends, spouses, or relatives as providers to help them remain in their own home.
What you get
Services, Coverage, as recorded:
- Monthly budget amount set via a Budget Authorization Form based on the Consumer's current Cost Plan, shown in an accompanying Budget Calculation Worksheet
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 Florida?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — spouse, child, 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 the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 06
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.
- 07
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 08
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
“Consumers must be fully enrolled with APD (not in pre-enrollment) before application to CDC+ may begin.”
apd.myflorida.com →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“Providers may include a Consumer's neighbor, friend, spouse, or relative [s. 409.221 F.S.].”
ahca.myflorida.com →State residency
“Lives in own home or family home”
apd.myflorida.com →
How to apply
- 01
Contact the CDC+ Helpline at 1-866-761-7043 for information and resources on getting started on CDC+. First, enroll in Florida's Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) Developmental Disabilities/Home and Community-Based Services iBudget Waiver; consumers must be fully enrolled with APD (not in pre-enrollment) before application to CDC+ may begin. Then select a CDC+ Representative if needed, take initial training, choose a CDC+ Consultant, and complete the Application and Enrollment packet. Submit the completed Application and Enrollment packet forms and Direct Deposit Request form to the CDC+ Consultant, who submits them to the State Office on the Consumer's behalf.