Together We Care Act of 2015

Together We Care Act of 2015

This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the training of public housing residents as home health aides and providers of home-based health services to enable them to provide covered home-based health services (services for which medical assistance is available under a state Medicaid plan or for which financial assistance is available under this Act) to residents of:

• public housing who are elderly, disabled, or both; and
• federally-assisted rental housing who are elderly, disabled, or both, subject to HUD criteria.

The grants may be used:

• to establish a program to train public housing residents to provide covered home-based health care services to elderly and disabled public housing residents and to elderly and disabled residents of federally-assisted rental housing,
• for the transportation and child care expenses of public housing residents in training, and
• for the administrative expenses of carrying out such a program.

For any resident of public housing who is trained as a home health aide or as a provider of home-based health services under the program, any income received for providing covered home-based health services shall apply towards eligibility for benefits under federal housing programs as specified in this Act, based on length of time following completion of the training.