It sounds as if the law under which In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) exists has a major flaw. If recipients can hire anyone they wish, regardless of qualifications, then there is no reasonable way anyone can truly oversee the quality of service provided, or even whether any real service is provided.
On the surface, one would think that hiring anyone not on the IHSS Registry is extremely risky. To blindly send service providers into people”s homes with no vetting looks to me like a sure-fire invitation to potential scams, not to mention abuse and criminality.
Perhaps the Board of Supervisors would spend its time more productively working at the state level to get the law to include language describing minimal skills required for any person to be a paid service provider under IHSS legislation.
Barbara J. Wrede
Nice
