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(h) The department will consider residential habilitation services to be in-home support habilitation services if they are provided on a one-to-one basis to a recipient younger than 18 years of age living full-time in that recipient’s private residence where an unpaid primary caregiver resides. (i) The department will pay for in-home support habilitation services under (h) of this section, subject to the following limitations:

(1) the department will not pay for more than 18 hours per day of in-home support habilitation services from all providers combined unless the department determines that the recipient is unable to benefit from

(A) other home and community-based waiver services; or

(B) services provided by natural supports;

(2) when in-home support habilitation services are authorized for the recipient, the department will not make separate payment for

(A) personal care services under 7 AAC 125.010 — 7 AAC 125.199 or 7 AAC 127.090 — 7 AAC 127.140;

(B) chore services under 7 AAC 127.087;

(C) transportation services under 7 AAC 130.290;

(D) meal services under 7 AAC 130.295; or

(E) services provided by another resident of the home or by the primary unpaid caregiver. (j) A provider of residential habilitation services under this section may not compel a recipient to be absent from an assisted living home, foster home, or group home for the convenience of the provider. (k) The department may authorize personal care services at the place of employment for a recipient of family home habilitation services or group-home habilitation services, if that place of employment is separate from the recipient’s residence, subject to the provisions of 7 AAC 125.050(a)(3) and 7 AAC 127.045. (Eff. 2/1/2010, Register 193; am 7/1/2013, Register 206; am 7/1/2015, Register 214; am 11/5/2017, Register 224; am 10/1/2018, Register 227; am 1/1/2021, Register 236; am 3/31/2021, Register 238; am 9/9/2021, Register 239) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.07.036