Action | Three Waivers (ID, DD, DS) Redesign |
Stage | Final |
Comment Period | Ended on 3/31/2021 |
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In 12 VAC 30 – 122 – 200, the regulations establish the SIS as the key component for establishing individual support needs and funding levels. The State has placed excessive confidence in the SIS which coupled with a meaningless appeals process places a significant number of individuals receiving waiver services at risk for mis-evaluation of their support needs and hence an unfair reduction in their support resources without any meaningful recourse under the existing system.
As is this regulatory set constitutes the State sticking its head in the sand and pretending that there are no SIS errors and based on this willful blindness foreclosing any meaningful avenue of redress for those individuals who are guaranteed to be mis-evaluated and unfairly denied equitable resources based on the States overreliance on the SIS score – this should not be allowed given the significant numbers of individuals who will be impacted this way and the fact that if even just one person is denied justice it harms them and reflects negatively on all of us.