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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 4
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 240 Chapter 4 Income
o Personal Hygiene/Grooming: care of hair, nails, teeth, mouth; shaving; bathing; toilet assistance; dressing; laundry, when related to incontinence. o Non-Technical Physical Assistance: routine bodily functions; routine skin care, including application of non-prescription skin care products; change of simple dressings; repositioning or transferring into and out of bed, on and off seats; walking, with or without equipment; assist in administration of medication; following directions of a professional for use of medical supplies. o Nutritional Support: meal preparation; feeding; assisting with special nutritional needs, including preparation of special formulas, prescribed feedings, or special diets. o Environmental: housecleaning, dusting and vacuuming; laundry; ironing and mending; making and changing beds; dishwashing; food shopping; payment of bills; essential errands; activities and transportation necessary to move the client from place to place; other similar activities of daily living. Expenses billed to the client for the personal care services shown above must, at a minimum, specify the amount billed for each general group of services. Ongoing or one-time-only medical expenses are not projected. They must be used no earlier than actually incurred. Those persons who are billed for their care at intervals longer than monthly are to have the expenses used to meet spenddown on the date services are performed, not on the date billed. Such expenses are not incurred prior to receipt of services. 4.16.4.K Unavailable Income Income intended for the client but received by another person with whom he does not live, when the individual receiving this income refuses to make it available, is excluded. 4.16.4.L Income Received for a Non-IG Member Income received by a member of the IG, which is intended and used for the care and maintenance of an individual whose income is not used in determining the eligibility of the payee's AG, is excluded as income.