The Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders is actually a combination of benefits programs, each of which provides a different level of home care and has different eligibility criteria. The first two levels are referred to as “State Funded” home care, because they are paid for entirely with State of Connecticut funds. They are generally (not always) easier to qualify for, but provide fewer hours of care than the third level. The third level is called Medicaid “waiver” home care, because it originates under certain waivable provisions of federal Medicaid law (it’s still considered Title XIX, or Title 19). It follows the same eligibility criteria that the Medicaid long term care program uses regarding nursing home benefits, but provides up to live-in (!) home care.