Have you ever wondered how supportive housing programs pay for support services including case management? Have you thought carefully about how much information about your benefits you volunteer to your case manager?

I just read an interesting article that spells out how one supportive housing agency recommends services be paid for by (drum roll, please) TENANTS MEDICAID BENEFITS. This may be ok with some people, but personally, I'd prefer  not to have someone else "helping" me spend my Medicaid benefits, especially since I spent two years with a very painful and extensive dermatological condition fighting to get the medication I needed to repair my skin covered by Medicaid when they didn't want to pay for the prescriptions... H.S.I.'s need to pay their staff is NOT as great as my need to have control over the meager benefits offered by welfare, and I think this system is creepy and coercive.

Follow the link below to see the article (I tried to cut and paste it, but that didn't work):

http://www.csh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/A-Quick-Guide-To-Improving-Medicaid-Coverage-For-Supportive-Housing-Services1.pdf