208.305. Volunteers or designated elderly beneficiaries needing respite assistance to receive, when, qualifications--paid assistance, when, rate. - Missouri Statutes

Volunteers or designated elderly beneficiaries needing respiteassistance to receive, when, qualifications--paid assistance, when,rate.

208.305. At such time as an elderly person who has done volunteer workunder the program established under section 208.300, or the designatedbeneficiary, shall need assistance himself, he shall so notify the divisionand, if the division shall determine that such person is in fact in need ofsuch assistance, which need shall not be based on financial need but on thesocial and medical condition of the person in question, such person shallreceive the assistance of a volunteer. If no volunteer is available to assista person entitled to assistance under this section because of hisparticipation as a volunteer in the program established under section 208.300,and such unavailability has been verified by the division, the division, or anagency approved by the division, may obtain paid assistance for such person.Such paid assistance shall be at a rate which is no higher than the prevailingreimbursable rate established by the state for a unit of in-home services.The cost of such paid assistance shall be paid by the state if the person inquestion is not eligible for Medicaid from in-home service funds appropriatedto the division.

(L. 1984 H.B. 959 § 2, A.L. 1987 S.B. 277)