The Your Texas Benefits mobile app is designed to help Texas residents manage their state-supported benefit programs efficiently. Here are the functionalities and key features of the YourTexasBenefits app:
You can manage your cases from your phone.
Use the app to:
- Set up a new account
- Check the status of your benefits
- Change your password
- Update your phone numbers
- Sign up and manage alerts about your cases
- Upload photos of files or forms we need from you, then send them to us
- Report most changes
- Find an HHSC benefits or community partner office
CLASS (Community Living Assistance and Support Services)
CLASS provides help to people with academic or developmental disabilities. It’s an alternative to institutional care.
Services include:
- Adaptive aids
- Minor home modifications
- Nursing
- Skilled and specialized therapies
- Personal assistance services and habilitation(PAS/HAB)
- Respite
- Behavioral support
- Case management
- Continued family services and transition assistance
- Dental treatment
Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (DBMD)
DBMD provides help to people with deaf-blindness or a condition leading to it. They must also have one or more other disabilities that impair daily living. This program is an alternative to institutional care.
Services include:
- Adaptive aids
- Help with orientation and mobility
- Intervener support
- Minor home modifications
- Personal assistance services and habilitation (PAS/HAB)
- Professional therapies
- Assisted living
- Dental treatment
Medically Dependent Children Program (MDCP)
MDCP provides community and home-based services to families who have medically dependent children who are who is 20 years old or younger. The Managed Care STAR Kids Program manages the program.
Services include:
- Adaptive aids
- Employment assistance
- Flexible family support services to help with:
- Child care
- Independent living
- Participation in post-secondary education
- Minor home modifications
- Respite
- Transition assistance
STAR+PLUS HBCS program (STAR+PLUS HCBS)
Star+PLUS HCBS is an in-home and community-based program that provides long-term care and assistance. It is a Medicaid-managed program for people with disabilities or for people who are who are 65 or older. It is a viable alternative to care in institutions.
Services include:
- Adaptive aids
- Adult foster care
- Adult day activity and health services (DAHS)
- Assisted Living
- Minor home modifications
- Nursing
- Personal attendant services
- Professional therapies
- Respite
- Unlimited prescription medication
- Dental treatment
- Emergency response services
- Employment services
Interest lists you must join by phone
There are other Medicaid waiver programs with interest lists that you can join but only join them by phone. After you join, you can check your status on the interest list for these programs at YourTexasBenefits.com. Call your LIDDA (local intellectual and developmental disability authority ) to learn more.
Home and Community-based Services (HCS): HCS assists people who suffer from intellectual disabilities or similar disabilities or related. They must live with their family members, in their own home or a four-person, three-person or host home/companion-care setting.
Services include:
- Adaptive aids
- Behavioral support
- Day habilitation
- Dental treatment
- Employment assistance
- Minor home modifications
- Nursing
- Personal assistance services and habilitation (PAS/HAB)
- Professional therapies
Residential assistance, including:
- Host home/companion care
- Residential support
- Supervised living
- Respite
- Texas Home Living (TxHmL)TxHmL provides help to people with intellectual disabilities or related conditions. They must live in their family’s home or their own home.
- Services include:
- Adaptive aids
- Behavioral support
- Day habilitation
- Dental treatment
- Employment assistance
- Minor home modifications
- Nursing
- Personal assistance services and habilitation (PAS/HAB)
- Professional therapies
- Respite
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