In-home supportive services.

Existing law establishes the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, administered by the State Department of Social Services and counties, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires the county welfare department to assess each recipient's continuing monthly need for in-home supportive services at varying intervals as necessary, but at least once every 12 months, and requires the monthly needs assessment to be divided by 4.33 to establish a recipient's weekly authorized number of hours, subject to specified adjustments. Existing law requires that in-home supportive services and waiver personal care services be performed by providers within a workweek, as defined, that does not exceed 66 hours per week, as reduced by a specified net percentage, and specifies that there are bimonthly payroll periods. This bill would instead require the county welfare department to measure each recipient's continuing need for supportive services on a weekly basis for purposes of its required assessment of the recipient's continuing need, and would specify that a "payroll period" means 2 workweeks. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.