·State program
Home and Community Based Waiver Services
Home and Community Based Waiver Services allow spouses and parents to serve as paid caregivers providing community supports, personal assistance, respite care, and other services in home and community-based settings, capped at 40 hours per week.
What you get
Cash Stipend, Services, as recorded:
- Capped at the Department's standard rate for similar services (no fixed dollar figure stated); a parent or spouse may not provide more than 40 hours of services in a seven-day period
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 Montana?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — spouse or parent — count for this program?
- 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.
Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“For a legally responsible individual, including biological and adoptive parents of members under 18, spouses of adult members, to be paid for the provision of Home and Community Based Services”
dphhs.mt.gov →
How to apply
- 01
The family member must be an employee of a Medicaid provider and meet the caregiver qualification and training standards specified in the waiver for that service; if a spouse is chosen as caregiver, this must be documented in the member's plan of care.