Auxiliary Grant: Caseload and Payments

Auxiliary Grant: Caseload and Payments

How this program helps people

An Auxiliary Grant (AG) provides an income supplement to recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and certain other aged, blind or disabled individuals residing in an assisted living facility (ALF) licensed by the Division of Licensing Programs or in an adult foster care home approved by the individual's local DSS.

The financial assistance is to ensure that adults are able to maintain a standard of living that meets a basic level of need (i.e., room and board, maintenance and care).

Before being admitted, adults are assessed by the local DSS or other public human services agency to determine their eligibility and the appropriate level of care. Not all ALFs accept AG recipients.

The VDSS-administered program is 80% state- and 20% locally-funded. Non-reimbursable expenses are funds provided by the locality and not reimbursable by VDSS.

At the start of SFY 2014 (July 1, 2013), the Adult Services Program moved from VDSS to the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS). DARS' Adult Protective Services Division oversees Adult Services and Auxiliary Grants as well as Adult Protective Services. Local departments of social services staff remain responsible for determining eligibility for Auxiliary Grants and service delivery for Adult Protective Services and Adult Services.

This program is now managed by DARS. Beginning with SFY 2022, VDSS will no longer report new statistics on this program. DARS activity reports can be found via the following link.

Data Notes

• The local fiscal year runs from June 1 through May 31.
• In 2009, three-quarters of the 78 local departments with declines in their caseloads in FYs 2007 and 2008 responded to a survey and identified the top 3 reasons for caseload decline:
  • AG grant rate is insufficient for ALF providers to cover required services, therefore providers are unable to accept AG recipients;
  • individuals' care needs exceed Assisted Living level of care; and
  • clients' desire to remain at home and, instead, use home-based services, Medicaid waivers, or CSB case management.

Data Sources

Locality Automated System for Expenditure Reimbursement (LASER)