Your Social Worker
Responsibilities and Duties
- Determines functional eligibility through assessments.
- Authorizes and terminates services.
- Determines types and hours of services to authorize.
When to contact your Social Worker
To avoid an overpayment or delay in payment to your provider, you are responsible for calling your IHSS Social Worker immediately when:
- You are hospitalized and.or return from a hospitalization
- Have a significant change in your needs for in-home care
- You hire or fire an provider
- You will be temporarily out of your home
- There is a change in your home (someone moves in with you, someone leaves your home or you move).