Wages and Benefits

This website contains forms, brochures and enrollment information for Florida's Consumer Directed Care program.

This notebook is used for training consumers in Florida's Consumer-Directed Care Plus program, this notebook highlights roles and responsibilities for consumers.

This section of Vermont's program manual provides more information on what allowable budget uses are under the Flexible Choices program and further information about program eligibility.

These frequently asked questions provide information about Agency with Choice, how it works, and employer responsibilities.

States have developed sample timesheets for participants to use with their employees. Several examples are available here.

The Consumer Directed Attendant Support Program developed this resource for participants. The manual contains ideas, approaches, and suggestions for consumers as they hire, train, and supervise attendants. Training includes budgeting, employer issues, and communications skills.

This article highlights the specific importance of consumer participation in the pre- and post-survey focus groups, and how that participation enhanced program planners' understanding of survey results, informed the design of the CCDE cash option program, and identified messages to include in social marketing materials for cash option consumers.

This report, focused on New Jersey’s Personal Preference program, provides information on workers’ views about issues such as job satisfaction, roles and responsibilities, and ideas for recruiting and retaining new personal care workers. The report also describes similarities and differences between paid family caregivers and non-family caregivers.

This study provides rich data about the experiences of paid workers who care for children under the age of 18 with developmental disabilities in Florida's CCDE program, Consumer Directed Care (CDC). Topics include workers' views about issues such as job satisfaction, roles and responsibilities, and ideas for recruiting and retaining new personal care workers.

First illustrating the US workers’ compensation system, this article continues to detail worker’s compensation programs and how they function. A historical overview and the basic objective of worker’s compensation laws are also reviewed. The article ends with a discussion of issues, challenges, and promising practices.