Family warns lawmakers cutting parental income disregard would force costly placements; ODDS explains program scope
A parent testified that removing the parental income disregard would "devastate" access to therapies and could force families to institutionalize children; ODDS explained the disregard treats the child as a family of one for Medicaid eligibility and said roughly 2,400 children currently receive waiver services because of it.
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The Senate Human Services Committee heard an informational briefing and family testimony on the parental income disregard, a Medicaid eligibility rule used in Oregon's developmental disability waivers to count a child as a family of one for financial eligibility.
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