Create Legal Louisiana Relative Caretaker Forms For Free

Salaries by years of experience in Louisiana Years of experiencePer hour1 to 2 years$11.263 to 5 years$11.726 to 9 years$11.98More than 10 years-1 more row

If someone with a disability already receives Medicaid, their state may allow a family member or friend to become a paid caregiver. Many states call this a consumer-directed personal assistance program. Each state has different requirements and rules. Contact your state's Medicaid office for more information.

In most cases, to get paid by Medicaid as a family caregiver, you will work through a program called self-direction (also known as Consumer Direction, Participant Direction, or other similar names). Medicaid self-direction programs give people who need long-term care services more control over their care.

Medicaid Options. Of all the programs that pay family members as caregivers, Medicaid is the most common source of payment. Medicaid has eligibility requirements that apply to the program participant and it has rules that dictate who is allowed to provide them with care.

Neither SSI nor SSDI will pay a caregiver directly. A beneficiary can use their Social Security payments to help pay for care from a home health care service or another party. In many cases, they can choose to pay a friend or family member if desired.

The Kinship Navigator Program (KNP) serves as an information and referral network for kinship caregivers who are providing full-time care to children other than their own. Kinship caregivers may be relatives, grandparents, and other fictive kin serving as caregivers to children whose parents are unable to do so.