South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 126 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Article 9 - OPTIONAL STATE SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM › Section 126-940 - Program Administration

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
A.
			 Subject to the availability of funding, the OSS Program will supplement the
			 income of eligible individuals for whom an OSS slot request has been
			 approved.
B. The Department of
			 Health and Human Services will establish the maximum number of OSS recipients
			 that can be funded with the appropriations made available through the South
			 Carolina legislative budgetary process, and will develop and administer
			 appropriate waiting lists as may be necessary to ensure that the OSS Program is
			 administered within the scope of the available funding.
C. OSS benefits will be paid monthly by the
			 Department of Health and Human Services through the issuance of a single check
			 to each participating community residential care facility that includes the OSS
			 benefit payments for all OSS recipients residing in that facility during the
			 month for which the payment is being made. This check will be accompanied by a
			 schedule of the individuals covered and the amount of the OSS benefit payment
			 for each individual.
D. Community
			 residential care facilities participating in the OSS Program must maintain
			 adequate records of the OSS benefit payments received by the facility on behalf
			 of each OSS recipient, and the facility must be able to accurately account for
			 its disposition of each resident's funds.
E. Cost-of-living adjustments in benefit
			 payments made by the federal government will result in adjustments in the OSS
			 Program as directed by the South Carolina General Assembly in the legislative
			 budgetary process. In the event that no specific direction is provided for the
			 treatment of a federal cost-of-living adjustment, such adjustment will result
			 in no change to the OSS net income limitation, the OSS facility rate, or the
			 personal needs allowance; OSS benefit payment amounts will be adjusted to
			 reflect the changes in recipients' countable income.
F. Community residential care facilities who
			 choose to participate in the OSS Program are required to comply with the
			 policies and procedures of the OSS Program as may be issued by the Department
			 of Health and Human Services in handbooks, manuals, program bulletins, notices,
			 or regulations. Non-compliance may result in the termination of a facility's
			 OSS participation.
G. A community
			 residential care facility participating in the OSS Program may not charge an
			 OSS recipient or the recipient's family any additional amount for services
			 included in the OSS facility rate. The imposition of additional charges for
			 services included in the OSS facility rate constitutes grounds for termination
			 of the facility's OSS participation.
H. Individuals who seek or receive benefits
			 from the OSS Program are required to comply with the policies and procedures of
			 the OSS Program as may be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services
			 in handbooks, manuals, program bulletins, notices, or regulations.
			 Non-compliance may result in the denial or termination of an individual's
			 eligibility and benefit payments under the OSS Program.