ELDERLY SUPPORT SUBSIDY



House Bill 4130

Sponsor: Rep. Judith Scranton

Committee: Senior Health, Security and

Retirement


Complete to 2-5-99



A SUMMARY OF HOUSE BILL 4130 AS INTRODUCED 2-2-99


The bill would create a new act, the "Elderly Support Subsidy Act", to establish a program to pay monthly subsidies to families who care for an elderly relative (age 65 or older) at home. The bill specifies that the purpose of the program would be "to keep families together and to reduce capacity in state facilities by defraying some of the special costs of caring for eligible elderly people, allowing elderly people to reside with a family member in their family home". The program would be established in the Office of Services to the Aging, which would administer the program and could promulgate rules to implement the bill.


Eligibility. The Office of Services to the Aging would create an application form for the program, which would require at least the following information (and this information would constitute eligibility for an elderly support subsidy):