Subpart 1.
Services exempted from financial participation.
Regardless of
an eligible individual's income, SSB must not require eligible individual
financial participation for the following services:
A. blindness services that consist of
independent living counseling, rehabilitation teaching services, and
orientation and mobility services;
B. communication center services;
C. diagnostic assessment services;
D. interpreter services;
E. low vision services with the following
limitations:
(1) only up to a limit of $300
per period of eligibility for each spectacle-mounted low vision aid with at
least a +4.00 diopter add; and
(2)
SSB must not purchase electronic magnification systems for
individuals;
F.
maintenance;
G. referral
services;
H. services to family
members identified in part
3325.0110, up to a limit of $300
per period of eligibility;
I.
rehabilitation technology with the following limitations:
(1) only up to $100 per period of eligibility
for each nonelectronic technology device;
(2) only up to $1,000 total per period of
eligibility for adaptive software;
(3) only up to ten hours of training,
excluding travel time, per period of eligibility for keyboarding, computer
literacy, and use of computerized aids or devices; and
(4) SSB must not purchase computers, related
accessories, or other computerized aids and devices; and
J. transportation services.
Subp. 2.
Services subject to
financial participation.
An eligible individual must participate in
paying the cost of all rehabilitation services not exempted from financial
participation under subpart
1.
Subp. 3.
Basis for determining the
degree of financial participation required.
The degree of financial
participation required of an eligible individual is 100 percent of all costs in
excess of those exempted. All eligible individuals in the independent living
program are subject to this part, and no variances shall be granted.
Notes
Minn. R. agency 139, ch. 3325, PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION, pt. 3325.0445
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Statutory Authority: MS s
248.07
