My 27-year-old difficult child is living with us while she in a DBT program. She does not have insurance so we are paying over $1000 a month for her therapy. She is working part-time and just makes enough to pay her car insurance, phone bill, gas and cigarettes.
At the suggestion of her DBT therapist, she went to another psychiatrist who wants to add Abilify to the medications that she is getting through the community health center. Since difficult child does not have health insurance, we would have to pay for that out of pocket and from what I can find, we would be talking anywhere from $400 - 600 a month.
We just can't do that right now in addition to the DBT. So I looked up the low income assistance program and it says that she has to provide the annual household income for last year. Well, she didn't work at all so she had no income. My question is does she have to include our income? Are we expected to pay for her medical bills just because she lives here (for the time being)? If it makes a difference, she lived here for about six months of last year before she went to rehab and then a halfway house.
Does anyone know how this works?
Thanks,
Kathy
At the suggestion of her DBT therapist, she went to another psychiatrist who wants to add Abilify to the medications that she is getting through the community health center. Since difficult child does not have health insurance, we would have to pay for that out of pocket and from what I can find, we would be talking anywhere from $400 - 600 a month.
We just can't do that right now in addition to the DBT. So I looked up the low income assistance program and it says that she has to provide the annual household income for last year. Well, she didn't work at all so she had no income. My question is does she have to include our income? Are we expected to pay for her medical bills just because she lives here (for the time being)? If it makes a difference, she lived here for about six months of last year before she went to rehab and then a halfway house.
Does anyone know how this works?
Thanks,
Kathy