How Family Members Can Get Paid to Care for a Loved One
How Family Members Can Get Paid to Care for a Loved One
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What the guide covers
- Who can be paid as a caregiver in Michigan, and the two situations where payment generally is not allowed
- What the Medicaid member has to qualify for financially and functionally, and who makes that decision
- The exact personal care and homemaking services Home Help covers, in Medicaid’s own terms
- The full process from first phone call to first payment, step by step
- CHAMPS, background screening, and Electronic Visit Verification explained without the jargon
- The difference between enrolling on your own and working through an agency
- What changed in 2026 for members who have both Medicare and Medicaid
- Six things families are commonly told that are not accurate
- A worksheet for preparing for the in-home assessment, which drives your approved hours
- A document checklist so you are not chasing paperwork mid-application
- Nine questions to ask before you choose an agency from a case manager’s list
Who it is for
- Adult children caring for a parent
- Siblings, grandchildren, and other relatives providing daily help
- Friends and neighbors who have quietly become someone’s main support
- Medicaid members choosing a home care agency
- Anyone who has cut back on work to care for someone and did not know there was a program for it
Why this matters
Thousands of Michigan families are enrolled in Home Help, and many more are eligible but never apply. The reasons are consistent: nobody told them the program existed, they assumed a certification was required, or they started the CHAMPS enrollment and gave up. None of those are good reasons to keep doing this unpaid.
Service area
Trinity Home Assistance serves Warren, Sterling Heights, Southfield, St. Clair Shores, Mount Clemens, Macomb, Madison Heights, Clinton Township, Utica, and Farmington Hills, plus surrounding communities in Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne counties.
