What a Financial Management Service does in SDP, the three models, seven questions to ask any FMS, the red flags, and when to decide so your start date holds.
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The DDS path: orientation, planning and the IPP, the individual budget, the spending plan, choosing an FMS, and what has to exist before anyone is paid.
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The individual budget is the money available for the year. The spending plan is how it is used. How each is set, who reviews it, and what sits outside.
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What employer burden is, the seven costs that make it up, why a $20-an-hour caregiver costs about $23 to $25, and how to plan for it in an SDP spending plan.
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How to hire your first caregiver in California's Self-Determination Program: pick the model, write the job, clear the background check, and start payroll.
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You can change your FMS. Here is what moves with you, what your caregivers and vendors must redo, what to ask your old FMS for, and how the timing works.
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What happens in each of our five enrollment steps, what you supply, what your case manager does, and when payroll and purchases can actually begin.
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Eight mistakes that cost new SDP families money or weeks, from ignoring employer burden to expecting the FMS to approve a service, and how to avoid each.
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What an SDP individual budget can buy, what it cannot, why generic resources come first, and how the FMS checks every request before it is paid.
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