What are the Income and Resources Eligibility Requirements?
You meet the financial eligibility requirements for IHSS if you receive SSI. If your income is too high to be eligible for any SSI, you may be eligible for IHSS with a share of cost representing the difference between your other income less $20 and the applicable SSI/SPP grant level. Please refer to Chapter 6 for more information about meeting your share of cost. Also, it may be possible for you to be eligible for zero share of cost Medi-Cal (and thus, zero share of cost IHSS) under the A & D FPL program, the 250% Working Disabled Program, 1619b, or the Pickle Program For more information about the A & D FPL program, go to: http://www.pai-ca.org/pubs/524401.pdf and http://www.pai-ca.org/PUBS/545001.pdf, http://www.healthconsumer.org/medical-cal.overview.pdf Generally, your personal property may not exceed $2,000 for an individual or $3,000 for a couple. Personal property that is not considered in determining your resources includes the home you own and in which you live and one automob
