Sec. 17b-600a. Additional financial assistance for persons with severe physical disabilities who require transfer assistance. Regulations. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17b-600a. Additional financial assistance for persons with severe physical disabilities who require transfer assistance. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall, within available appropriations, establish a pilot program to provide additional financial benefits for persons with severe physical disabilities (1) who are unable to transfer independently in the event of an emergency, (2) who apply for or receive aid under the state supplement program, and (3) who reside with individuals who provide transfer assistance to such persons. Benefits shall be provided under the program only if the individual providing such transfer assistance is not related to the person with a severe physical disability. Under the program, payments shall be made in an amount equal to the amount of the increased benefit the person would receive under the state supplement program if the individual providing such transfer assistance were not living with the person with a severe physical disability. For the purposes of this section, "transfer assistance" means help provided to a person with a severe physical disability by an individual who physically lifts such person or utilizes a hoyer lift, transfer board or other device in order to move such person between surfaces or to or from a bed, chair or wheelchair within such person's residence.

      (b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to administer the program established under subsection (a) of this section. Said commissioner may implement the program until January 1, 2002, while in the process of adopting such regulations, provided notice of intent to adopt the regulations is published in the Connecticut Law Journal within twenty days after implementation.

      (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-2, S. 1, 53.)

      History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-2 effective July 1, 2000.