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title: "Illinois Home Care Medicaid | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "Illinois's Community Care Program and Persons Who Are Elderly waiver offer a major home- and community-based alternative for qualifying older adults."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
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Illinois · Home & Community Care

# Illinois Home Care Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

The Illinois Department on Aging runs the Community Care Program (CCP), the state's primary in-home and community-based alternative to nursing-facility placement for seniors.

Its Medicaid-funded piece is the Persons Who Are Elderly 1915(c) waiver. HFS handles the Medicaid administration and federal oversight side of that waiver, while the Department on Aging manages its day-to-day operations — a split responsibility that's useful to understand when trying to figure out which agency to call.

## Sources and official resources

- [Illinois HFS: Long Term Care](https://hfs.illinois.gov/medicalclients/ltc.html)
- [CMS: 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards](https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib04272026.pdf)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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