Eligibility combines age, residence, Medicaid, and need
HFS and the Department on Aging describe eligibility for people age 60 or older who are Illinois residents and citizens or eligible noncitizens, Medicaid-eligible or willing to apply annually, assessed as at risk of nursing-facility placement through the Determination of Need, and able to receive home care at a cost below estimated institutional care (HFS elderly waiver; Department on Aging CCP).
The Department on Aging CCP page says non-exempt assets must be $17,500 or less and lists the home, car, and personal furnishings as exempt, but that source conflicts with HFS's general $2,000/$3,000 benefit page and needs direct verification before reliance (Department on Aging CCP; HFS Medical Benefits).
Resource-limit caution: the CCP page publishes $17,500 in non-exempt assets, but HFS's general page publishes $2,000/$3,000. Confirm the rule with a caseworker or IDHS WAG 25-03-02 before treating either number as the answer for a waiver application.
Services are designed to support community living
The Department on Aging lists comprehensive care coordination, adult day service, in-home homemaker or personal-assistant services, emergency home-response systems, and automated medication dispensers among HCBS supports (Department on Aging HCBS services).
A Department on Aging brochure says eligible CCP participants receive services at no out-of-pocket cost through local Care Coordination Units (Department on Aging CCP brochure).
Scale does not guarantee an individual service plan
The Department on Aging says the Persons Who Are Elderly waiver, also known as CCP, serves more than 150,000 Illinois adults age 60 and older (Department on Aging administration and funding).
Other listed Illinois waiver programs include Persons with Disabilities, Persons with Brain Injury, and Persons with HIV/AIDS, while the Supportive Living Program is a separate waiver for assisted-living-type settings (Department on Aging HCBS services). Compare Florida's home-care Medicaid page and see Medicaid (Baseline).
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