Florida Freedom Initiative

Florida

September 2005

Summary

The Florida Freedom Initiative (FFI) is a statewide demonstration being conducted by the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities under a grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Studies (CMS). The initiative is focused on people with developmental disabilities who use long-term care supports and services. Its goals are to improve the delivery of those supports and services and to promote self-sufficiency. SSA is conducting a demonstration in conjunction with the FFI. The SSA demonstration consists of waiving certain SSI program rules for FFI participants, both to enable SSI beneficiaries to take part in the demonstration and to test whether the waivers promote work and asset building.

Detailed Description

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The demonstration is underway at this time. SSA signed an interagency agreement (IAA) with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (HHS) to provide $100,000 in support of the evaluation activities. Florida began enrolling participants in September 2005.