Home and Community-Based Care Act of 1983

Summary

Home and Community-Based Care Act of 1983 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to authorize a State to provide home care services to all individuals (currently, limited to individuals 18 years of age or younger) who are disabled, as defined in title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Act, and with respect to whom it has been determined that: (1) they can receive appropriate care outside an institution; and (2) they would have to be institutionalized (but for such home care) at a cost that is equal to or greater than the cost of home care. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit for a taxpayer who maintains a household for a disabled dependent as described in the above paragraph. Provides that the maximum allowable credit shall be $750.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 8 March 1983

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.