Attendant Care: $21.00 Per hour

Respite Care: $20.00 Per hour

Habilitation Care: $22.00 per hour

The Care Agency is a 1099 agency. Allowing individuals and parent providers, to set your own hours, and shifts. This gives our caregivers the ability to work as many hours a week as you desire.          

Join us on one of our webinars for our providers and families, on Social Security, Trusts for the disabled and many valuable topics for families and guardians of special needs individuals.

BECOMING A  PARENT PROVIDER

1. The Special Needs/Disabled individual needs to be enrolled in DDD/ALTCS or EPD/ALTCS in Arizona. DDD alone does not qualify the member for any services. They must have Arizona Long-Term Care (ALTCS). Once Approved, recipients are called a “member” of ALTCS.

2. Your member will need to qualify and be approved for Attendant Care, Habilitation, and or Respite hours which is determined in a person-centered planning meeting with your DDD or ALTCS Support Coordinator.

3. Hours are determined based on the needs of the member, NOT the employment needs of the parents. Prior to meeting with your member’s Support Coordinator review the Attendant Care, Habilitation and Respite forms.

4. There are many choices on who can provide the hours for your member. It can be done by an outside provider found by you or us, The Care Agency, a family member (such as grandparent, aunt, adult sibling or cousin) or a parent provider.

5. Once hours are determined based on the needs of your member you will ask for the hours to be assigned to The Care Agency. To become a parent provider you will need to go through the hiring and training process which can take some time. We will facilitate and walk you through each step.

6. Paid Parent Caregiver are required to clock in and out at the time the services are provided, just like any caregiver. This is a requirement from the state, you will  also perform continuing education and comply with all employee requirements of our agency.  This is required of all caregivers, regardless if you’re the parent or guardian.

If the member lives with you, this income is considered difficulty of care income, and tax exempt on the federal level.  It is NOT tax exempt on the state level. IRS NOTICE 2014-7

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/certain-medicaid-waiver-payments-may-be-excludable-from-income