Housing Stabilization Services is a new Minnesota Medical Assistance benefit to help people with disabilities, including mental illness and substance use disorder, and seniors find and keep housing.
The purpose of these services is to:
- Support an individual’s transition into housing,
- Increase long-term stability in housing in the community, and
- Avoid future periods of homelessness or institutionalization.
Eligibility
Need for services: members must have support needs in one of the four areas while completing the LTCC:
Communication
Mobility
Managing behaviors
Making decisions
Through the LTCC assessment care coordinators will determine any limitations the member has. When a care coordinator sees a limitation in one of these areas, the member has met the needs based criteria. A member does not need to meet the definition of “dependency” on the LTCC in one of the above categories to qualify.
Housing instability: members must also have housing instability to qualify for housing stabilization services. The member must meet one of the following criteria:
- Homeless
- At risk of homelessness (including could become homeless without continued housing services)
- Institutionalized (currently or within the last 6 months) Eligible for a waiver (a person with an institutional level of care is also deemed at risk of institutionalization)
Disability or disabling condition: members must meet a defined criteria for disability. For the purposes of qualifying for housing stabilization being age 65 or over is a qualifier under the disability and disabling condition category