173-4-02 Older Americans Act nutrition program: meals eligible for payment.

 

 

 

173-4-02                      Eligibility criteria.

 

 

 

(A)A person may participate in a congregate nutrition program if:

 

(1)The person is at least sixty years of age;

 

(2) The person is the spouse of an eligible person, regardless of age or abilities;

 

(3)The person provides volunteer services during meal-preparation hours or meal-service hours and only receives a meal (and not any other nutrition-related services of the congregate nutrition program);

 

(4)The person is a guest who is otherwise ineligible to participate in a congregate nutrition program and who pays the provider for the provider's actual contracted unit cost of the meal; or,

 

(5)The person is a staff member who is otherwise ineligible to participate in a congregate nutrition program and who pays the provider's suggested donation or pays a rate mutually agreed upon by the provider and the AAA.

 

(B)A person may participate in a home-delivered nutrition program if:

 

(1)The person is at least sixty years of age and meets one of the following criteria:

 

(a) The person is unable to prepare his/her own meals;

 

(b) The person is unable to participate in a congregate nutrition program because of physical or emotional difficulties; and,

 

(c) The  person  lacks  another  meal  support  service  in  the  home  or  the community.

 

(2)The person is the spouse of an eligible person, regardless of age or abilities, who lives in the home of the eligible person;

 

(3)The person provides services during meal-preparation hours or meal-delivery hours and only receives a meal (and not any other nutrition-related services of the home-delivered nutrition program); or,

 

(4)The person is a guest who is otherwise ineligible to participate in a home-delivered nutrition program and who pays the provider for the provider's actual contracted unit cost of the meal; or,

 

(5)The person is a staff member who is otherwise ineligible to participate in a home-delivered nutrition program and who pays the provider's suggested donation or pays a rate mutually agreed upon by the provider and the AAA.

 

(C)The  AAA  shall  establish  procedures  that  allow  providers  of  a  congregate  or

 

 

 

home-delivered  nutrition  program  the  option  to  offer  a  meal  to  the  following persons with disabilities:

(1) A person who is less than sixty years of age and is a person with a disability who resides in a facility that is primarily occupied by residents who are at least sixty years of age at which a congregate nutrition program or home-delivered nutrition program is provided; or,

(2) A person with a disability who resides in a home with another person who is eligible to participate in a home-delivered nutrition program.

Effective:                                                     03/05/2009

R.C. 119.032 review dates:                         07/31/2013

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

02/23/2009

Date

Promulgated Under:                           119.03

Statutory Authority:                           173.02; 173.392; Section 305 (a)(1)(C) of the Older

Americans Act of 1965, 79 Stat. 210, 42 U.S.C. 3001,

as amended in 2006; 45 C.F.R. 1321.11

Rule Amplifies:                                  173.392; Sections 336 and 339 of the Older Americans Act of 1965, 79 Stat. 210, 42 U.S.C. 3001, as amended

in 2006