Husrefovich v. Department of Aging & Independent Living

¶ 1. (Ret.), Specially Assigned. Appellants in this case are elderly and disabled individuals who received in-home personal care services pursuant to a federally-approved Medicaid waiver *457program.1 They filed a consolidated appeal with the Human Services Board, asserting that the Department of Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) violated the law by failing to engage in rulemaking before imposing “máximums” on the amount of weekly service hours that they could receive. As relief, appellants sought the same level of service hours that they had received the year before the máximums were imposed.…