Eligibility for services.
Many current recipients of long-term
care services are not frail enough to qualify for LTCI benefits, at least
not at a high level, and these persons also face the 10 percent copayment
(most had been paying little or nothing). Various steps have
been taken to ease this situation, such as allowing residents classified
as noneligible (about 3 percent so far) to remain in nursing
homes for five years and lowering the copayment to 3 percent for
persons who had been receiving community-based social services.
Also, many municipalities will continue to provide services to those
not qualifying for LTCI under their own social welfare programs