·State program
Pennsylvania Caregiver Support Program
The Pennsylvania Caregiver Support Program helps primary caregivers maintain a healthy ongoing relationship with their care receiver by providing care management, benefits counseling, caregiver education and training, respite and other supports, and reimbursement for eligible caregiving-related costs.
What it offers
Provides care management, benefits counseling, caregiver education and training, and reimbursement for caregiving-related services or supplies such as respite care, consumable supplies, supportive services, supplemental services, home modifications, assistive devices, and services for grandparents or older relative caregivers. The program is administered by local Area Agencies on Aging.
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 Pennsylvania?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, other relative, or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
What are the current income and asset limits, and whose income counts?
Our record lists 380% of the federal poverty level — limits change, so confirm the current figures.
- 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?