I have no idea if Medicaid will allow u to care for Mom with a felony. I know my nieces son had a hard time finding a job with a drug felony. All you can do is see if Mom fits within the Medicaid income cap. It depends on the State whether they pay family or not. Call your Office of Aging to see what resources they have.
If you haveva felony, especially a drug felony, I doubt if you can be a CNA, LPN or nurse. In me State, they are all licenced by the Nursing board. If there is a felony of drugs, you cannot get licenced because you will be working around drugs and thats a temptation.
1. I am glad you are clean and sober. 2. There is a real possibility that if there are programs that would pay you to care for mom you may not be eligible due to a drug conviction. This is because during the course of caring for her medications that she may be prescribed would be Schedule II controlled substances.
In general mom would be the one to pay caregivers. But you can look into seeing if she would qualify for programs through the local Senior Service Center in your area. Or if mom is a Veteran the VA may pay you. If mom is Hospice eligible you would get help from Hospice but not pay.
Ideally your Mom should be the one to pay you unless she qualifies for an in-home aid for her state's Medicaid program. But then I've read on this forum that even in this arrangement the state won't give you full-time hours and it is the minimum wage. It would be better to have a written contract between you and her (so that she doesn't get disqualified from Medicaid for "gifting" you money) and she pays you directly from her own funds.
In my area there are many non-profit faith-based organizations that focus on providing living-wage jobs for people with felonies. Please look into this since your Mom won't be here forever and you'll need to support yourself into the future. This also means your jobs should be contributing into your SS, or else you'll be in a very difficult situation in your own retirement years.
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If you are going to be your Mom's one and only caregiver, I would encourage her to assign you as her medical and financial PoA, and that she lists you as her beneficiary on her assets and bank account (assuming there aren't other siblings). She may want to consider adding you to the deed of her home, if she has one. A consult with an elder law or estate planning attorney will be well worth it (sometimes the consults are free). Also make sure you both know what is required for her to qualify for Medicaid, in the very likely case that she needs it. In most states the financial look-back period on the application is 5 years, so it matters a lot how her affairs are managed.
If you haveva felony, especially a drug felony, I doubt if you can be a CNA, LPN or nurse. In me State, they are all licenced by the Nursing board. If there is a felony of drugs, you cannot get licenced because you will be working around drugs and thats a temptation.
This is state specific, so you really need to ask your states department of health and human services how this works.
2. There is a real possibility that if there are programs that would pay you to care for mom you may not be eligible due to a drug conviction. This is because during the course of caring for her medications that she may be prescribed would be Schedule II controlled substances.
In general mom would be the one to pay caregivers. But you can look into seeing if she would qualify for programs through the local Senior Service Center in your area. Or if mom is a Veteran the VA may pay you. If mom is Hospice eligible you would get help from Hospice but not pay.
Ideally your Mom should be the one to pay you unless she qualifies for an in-home aid for her state's Medicaid program. But then I've read on this forum that even in this arrangement the state won't give you full-time hours and it is the minimum wage. It would be better to have a written contract between you and her (so that she doesn't get disqualified from Medicaid for "gifting" you money) and she pays you directly from her own funds.
In my area there are many non-profit faith-based organizations that focus on providing living-wage jobs for people with felonies. Please look into this since your Mom won't be here forever and you'll need to support yourself into the future. This also means your jobs should be contributing into your SS, or else you'll be in a very difficult situation in your own retirement years.
My husband and I have a marketing company and we just did a logo for a Christian organization that helps felons with reentry and to find felon-friendly employers. Please browser search "felon-friendly employers".
If you are going to be your Mom's one and only caregiver, I would encourage her to assign you as her medical and financial PoA, and that she lists you as her beneficiary on her assets and bank account (assuming there aren't other siblings). She may want to consider adding you to the deed of her home, if she has one. A consult with an elder law or estate planning attorney will be well worth it (sometimes the consults are free). Also make sure you both know what is required for her to qualify for Medicaid, in the very likely case that she needs it. In most states the financial look-back period on the application is 5 years, so it matters a lot how her affairs are managed.
I read your profile... blessings to you!