PERMANENT RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Aging and Disability Services Administration)
Date Adopted: December 24, 2003.
Purpose: The Division of Developmental Disabilities has been directed by the 2002 Washington state legislature to begin paying an income supplemental, called state supplementary payment (SSP). Implementation of this directive requires the adoption of new chapter 388-827 WAC, Division of Developmental Disabilities -- State supplementary payment. When effective, these rules will replace the emergency rules filed as WSR 04-01-145.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 71A.12.030.
Other Authority: RCW 71A.10.020, 2001-03 Supplemental Budget ESSB 6387 (chapter 371, Laws of 2002).
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-22-056 on October 31, 2003.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: The term "community alternatives program (CAP) waiver" was changed to "home and community based services (HCBS) waiver administered by DDD" in WAC 388-827-0115, 388-827-0130, 388-827-0145, and 388-827-0146. The changes were made because the community alternatives program waiver is expiring and will be replaced with new HCBS waivers.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 26, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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Repealed 0;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Repealed 0;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 26,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
December 24, 2003
Jim Schnellman
for Brian H. Lindgren, Manager
Rules and Policies Assistance Unit
3257.6STATE SUPPLEMENTARY PAYMENT PROGRAM
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(a) Certain voluntary placement program services, which include:
(i) Foster care basic maintenance,
(ii) Foster care specialized support,
(iii) Agency specialized support,
(iv) Staffed residential home,
(v) Out-of-home respite care,
(vi) Agency in-home specialized support,
(vii) Group care basic maintenance,
(viii) Group care specialized support,
(ix) Transportation,
(x) Agency attendant care,
(xi) Child care,
(xii) Professional services,
(xiii) Nursing services,
(xiv) Interpreter services,
(b) Family support;
(c) One or more of the following residential services:
(i) Adult family home,
(ii) Adult residential care facility,
(iii) Alternative living,
(iv) Group home,
(v) Supported living,
(vi) Agency attendant care,
(vii) Supported living or other residential service allowance,
(viii) Intensive individual supported living support (companion homes).
(2) For individuals with community protection issues as defined in WAC 388-820-020, the department will determine eligibility for SSP on a case-by-case basis.
(3) For new authorizations of family support opportunity:
(a) You were on the family support opportunity waiting list prior to January 1, 2003; and
(b) You are on the home and community based services (HCBS) waiver administered by DDD; and
(c) You continue to meet the eligibility requirements for the family support opportunity program contained in WAC 388-825-200 through 388-825-242.
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(1) If you choose not to receive DDD/SSP payments, you will not receive department funding for that service.
(2) Your home and community based services (HCBS) waiver service(s) administered by DDD but not funded by DDD/SSP payments will not be affected by your choice to receive or reject DDD/SSP payments.
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(2) Your current services will not be continued while the matter is being appealed if the service termination or transfer is for a specific group of clients in order to meet the legislative intent of and comply with sections 205 and 207, chapter 371, Laws of 2002.
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(1) For residential and voluntary placement program services, the amount of your SSP will be based on the amount of state-only dollars spent on certain services at the time the funding source was converted to SSP. If the type of your residential living arrangement changes, your need will be reassessed and your payment adjusted based on your new living arrangement and assessed need.
(2) For family support services, refer to WAC 388-825-200 through 388-825-284.
(a) If you are on the home and community based services (HCBS) waiver administered by DDD:
(i) You will receive nine hundred dollars DDD/SSP money per year to use as you determine.
(ii) The remainder up to the maximum allowed may be authorized by DDD to purchase HCBS waiver services and will be paid directly to the provider.
(b) If you are not on the HCBS waiver administered by DDD, you will receive the yearly maximum allowed in the form of DDD/SSP money to use as you determine.
(c) The yearly amount of DDD/SSP money will be prorated into monthly amounts. You will receive one twelfth of the yearly amount each month.
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(2) If you are a person age eighteen and older, the warrant/check will be sent directly to your protective payee or representative payee if you have one.
(3) If you do not have a protective payee or representative payee, the warrant/check will be sent directly to you.
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(1) Your SSI stops;
(2) Your address changes; or
(3) There is a change in your living arrangement that affects your assessed need.
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(2) If you want to obtain a criminal background check of any employee who will have unsupervised access to children or adults with developmental disabilities, you may get the background check done through the Washington State Patrol. You can ask your DDD case resource manager to assist you with completing these background checks.
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(1) You no longer are eligible for or receive SSI cash benefits;
(2) You no longer demonstrate a need for the services as described in WAC 388-827-0115; or
(3) Your DDD eligibility is terminated.
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(a) The person, organization, institution or agency that acts as your representative payee for Supplemental Security Income (SSI);
(b) Your parent, if you are under eighteen;
(c) Your spouse; or
(d) A person, organization, institution or agency you select if the department approves your selection.
(2) If you select a representative payee under subsection (1) (d) of this section, the department will evaluate the selection according to the following criteria:
(a) The relationship of the payee to you;
(b) The amount of interest the payee shows in you;
(c) Any legal authority the payee has to act on your behalf;
(d) Whether the payee has custody of you; and
(e) Whether the payee is in a position to know of and look after your needs.
(3) The DDD director or designee will approve or deny your request for a representative under subsection (1) (d) of this section.
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(1) Spend the DDD/SSP on you or your behalf;
(2) Notify the department if any event happens that may affect the amount of benefits you receive;
(3) Submit to the department, upon our request, a written report accounting for the payments received; and
(4) Notify the department of any change in the payee's circumstances that would affect performance of the payee responsibilities.
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(1) You or your case manager may request an exception to a rule in this chapter.
(2) The case manager must submit a written request for an exception to his or her DDD regional administrator.
(3) DSHS will evaluate requests for exceptions, considering:
(a) The federal and state rules governing SSP; and
(b) The impact on the client if the exception is not approved.
(4) The DDD regional administrator will forward the request to the DDD director together with the regional administrator's recommendation to approve or deny the request.
(5) The DDD director or designee will approve or deny the request in writing within sixty calendar days after receiving the request from the case manager.
(6) The department will notify you of the decision.
(7) You do not have rights to adjudicative proceedings when you receive a denial from DSHS for an exception to the rules in this chapter.
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(2) If you request a hearing and the hearing decision determines that you received any DDD/SSP money that you were not eligible to receive, then some or all of the DDD/SSP you received before the hearing decision must be paid back to the department.
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(1) You were not eligible for and did not receive Supplemental Security Income in the month in which the SSP was issued;
(2) You were no longer eligible for services from the division of developmental disabilities in the month in which the SSP was issued; or
(3) Your assessed need has changed.
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(2) If you are paid through a representative payee, both you and the representative payee may be responsible for repayment.
(a) You are responsible to the extent that the incorrect payments were spent on you or your behalf. Funds conserved by a representative payee to which you do not have direct access have not been spent on you or your behalf.
(b) If the incorrect payments were spent on you or your behalf and the representative payee is without fault in connection with the overpayment, you are solely responsible for repayment.
(c) The representative payee is solely responsible for repayment if:
(i) The incorrect payments were not spent on you or your behalf; and
(ii) The representative payee is at fault in connection with the overpayment.
(d) A government entity or an institution can be a representative payee and can be found responsible for repayment -- just as a private individual can.
(e) You and the representative payee are both responsible for repayment when the incorrect payments have been spent on you or your behalf and the representative payee is at fault.
(3) The representative payee is at fault when the representative payee was aware of the reason you were not eligible for the SSP.
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