Date of Adoption: June 30, 2003.

     Purpose: Amending WAC 388-71-0460 to describe what tasks/services cannot be authorized when a client lives with their individual provider or their personal aide, or their individual provider or personal aide lives with them.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 388-71-0460.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.08.090, 74.09.520, 74.39.005.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-11-066 on May 19, 2003.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
     Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

June 30, 2003

Brian H. Lindgren, Manager

Rules and Policies Assistance Unit

     (1) HCP services may not replace other available resources, both paid and unpaid.

     (2) ((AASA)) ADSA published rates and program rules establish your total hours and how much the department pays toward the cost of your services.

     (3) The department will ((adjust payments to a personal care provider who is doing household tasks at the same time (e.g., essential)) not pay for shopping, housework, laundry, meal preparation, ((laundry, and supervision due to impaired judgement) for:

     (a))) or wood supply when you and your individual provider, agency provider, or personal aide live in the same household.

     (4) The department will adjust payments to an individual provider, agency provider, or personal aide who is doing household tasks for more than one client living in the same household((; or

     (b) A client in a shared living arrangement (MPC))).

[Statutory Authority: RCW 74.09.520. 00-04-056, § 388-71-0460, filed 1/28/00, effective 2/28/00.]

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