68-1006.01 Personal needs allowance; amount authorized.
68-1006.01.Personal needs allowance; amount authorized.The Department of Health and Human Services shall include in the standard of need for eligible aged, blind, and disabled persons at least fifty dollars per month for a personal needs allowance if such persons reside in an alternative living arrangement.For purposes of this section, an alternative living arrangement shall include board and room, a boarding home, a certified adult family home, a licensed assisted-living facility, a licensed group home for children or child-caring agency, a licensed center for the developmentally disabled, and a long-term care facility.SourceLaws 1991, LB 57, ยง 1; Laws 1996, LB 1044, ยง 308; Laws 1997, LB 608, ยง 3; Laws 1999, LB 119, ยง 1; Laws 2000, LB 819, ยง 79.