2006 New York Code - Aid To Families With Dependent Children Homemaker/home Health Aide Demonstration Projects.

 
    * §  364-e.  Aid  to  families  with dependent children homemaker/home
  health aide demonstration projects. 1.  Notwithstanding  sections  three
  hundred  sixty-six  and three hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter, the
  department shall have the authority to enter into agreements with social
  services districts for  the  purpose  of  conducting  the  demonstration
  project  authorized  by  section  nine  hundred sixty-six of the omnibus
  reconciliation act of nineteen hundred eighty,  designed  to  train  and
  employ persons eligible for and receiving aid to families with dependent
  children benefits as homemakers or home health aides. Such persons shall
  provide authorized services to elderly or disabled individuals, or other
  individuals in need of services, to whom such services are not otherwise
  reasonably  and  actually  available or provided, and who would, without
  the availability of such services, be reasonably anticipated to  require
  institutional care.
    2.  Participants in the demonstration project shall be persons who are
  eligible participants as defined in  subdivision  (b)  of  section  nine
  hundred sixty-six of P.L. 96-499.
    3. For purposes of this section, authorized services include part-time
  or intermittent:
    (a) personal care, such as bathing, grooming and toilet care;
    (b) assisting patients having limited mobility;
    (c) feeding and diet assistance;
    (d) home management, housekeeping and shopping;
    (e) health-oriented recordkeeping; and
    (f) simple procedures for identifying potential health problems.
    4.  For  the first year during which a person is employed by a project
  authorized by this section, such person shall,  notwithstanding  section
  three  hundred  sixty-six  of  this  chapter, retain any eligibility for
  medical assistance under a state plan approved under Title  XIX  of  the
  Social  Security  Act,  which such person had at the time he/she entered
  the project.
    5. Expenditures made for services provided by persons participating in
  this  demonstration  project  shall  be  considered  medical  assistance
  expenditures  and  shall  be reimbursed in accordance with section three
  hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter.
    6. This section shall  be  effective  if,  and  as  long  as,  federal
  financial participation is available therefor.
    * NB Expired June 30, 1986