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(C) Support services funds are not expended to such an extent
that the support services funds that may be required to
purchase the remainder of necessary supports following the
termination of crisis diversion services shall be unavailable; and
(D) Support services funds are used for no more than 90 days
following the determination that the individual shall enter a
comprehensive service.
(d) The ISP projects the amount of support services funds, if any, that
may be required to purchase the remainder of necessary supports
that are within the benefit level; and
(e) The ISP has been authorized for implementation.
(2) Goods and services purchased with support services funds on behalf of
individuals are provided only as social benefits.
(3) LIMITS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. The use of support services
funds to purchase individual supports in any plan year is limited to the
individual's annual benefit level.
(a) Individuals must have access throughout the plan year to the total
annual amount of support services funds for which they are eligible
that are determined to be necessary to implement an authorized ISP,
even if there is a delay in implementation of the ISP, unless otherwise
agreed to in writing by the individual or the individual's legal
representative.
(b) The Department may require that annual benefit level amounts be
calculated and applied on a monthly basis when an individual's
eligibility for Medicaid changes during a plan year, an individual's
benefit level changes, or when an individual's ISP is developed and
written to be in effect for less than 12 months.
(A) Except in the case of an individual whose benefit level
changes as the result of a change in eligibility for the Support
Services Waiver, when an individual's benefit level changes,
the monthly benefit level shall be 1/12 of the annual benefit
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