·State program
Paid Parent Caregiving
Paid Parent Caregiving allows eligible parents, stepparents, adoptive parents, legal guardians, or civil union partners to be paid Medicaid rates for providing personal care services to children under 21 with a documented medical condition or disability. Adults may be paid up to 40 hours per week at the Collectively Bargained minimum rate for services provided in the home.
What you get
Cash Stipend, Services, as recorded:
- legally responsible individuals paid the current Medicaid rate on file (not a flexible wage); DDS adult program pays up to 40 hours/week at the Collectively Bargained minimum rate for Independent Direct Support Workers
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 Vermont?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — spouse or parent — count for this program?
- 03
Is the person receiving care in the covered age range (null–21)?
- 04
What counts as a qualifying disability or level of care need, and what documentation shows it?
- 05
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 06
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null 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.
Age of the person receiving care
“Be under the age of 21”
humanservices.vermont.gov →Disability of the person receiving care
“Have a medical condition, disability, or cognitive impairment as documented by a”
humanservices.vermont.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“Legally Responsible Individual" means the beneficiary's biological parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian, spouse, or civil union partner”
humanservices.vermont.gov →
How to apply
- 01
The individual must provide an attestation to the Children's Personal Care Program that children's personal care services are unavailable from a personal care attendant