Haw. Code R. § 17-401.1-30 - On-the-job or other related personal attendant services

(a) Personal attendant services means a range of services, provided by one or more persons, designed to assist an individual with a disability to perform daily living activities on or off the job that the individual would typically perform without assistance if the individual did not have a disability. The services may include training in managing, supervising, and directing personal attendant services.

(b) Personal attendant services must be designed to increase the individual's control in life and ability to perform everyday activities on or off the job, and must be necessary to the achievement of an employment outcome.

(c) Personal attendant services may be provided:

(1) Only while an individual with a disability is receiving other VR services and when necessary to enable the individual to access those services; and

(2) In accordance with the division's standards of services in section 17-400.1-10 pertaining to the authorization for expenditure of funds, payments to vendors, amount of payment, and vendor qualifications.

(d) The division shall provide each applicant or eligible individual or, as appropriate, the individual's representative, in need of personal attendant services, the opportunity to make an informed choice in selecting a personal attendant from among a list of qualified individuals.

(1) To assist the individual in making an informed choice, the division shall provide the applicant or eligible individual or, as appropriate, the individual's representative, through appropriate modes of communication, information concerning:

(A) The availability and costs of personal attendant services;

(B) The qualifications of service providers; and

(C) Consumer satisfaction with those services to the extent that such information is available.

(2) Referral may be made to other resources qualified to discuss the services or service providers.

(e) Personal attendant services are subject to the use of comparable services and benefits provisions of section 17-401.1-13, but are exempt from the use of personal resources (financial needs test) provisions of section 17-401.1-14.

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Haw. Code R. § 17-401.1-30

[Eff. AUG 13 2007] (Auth: HRS §§ 347-4, 348-3, 348-6; 29 U.S.C. §§709, 723; 34 C.F.R. §361.50) (Imp: HRS §§ 347-4, 348-3, 348-6; 29 U.S.C. §§709, 723; 34 C.F.R. §361.50)