Who can serve as a Self-Directed Adult's Support Broker?

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Who can serve as a Self-Directed Adult's Support Broker?

In Self-Directed services, you work with a dedicated broker who is paid to help you plan, hire services, and manage your budget. The broker is a separate, professional resource you contract and pay for, which keeps guidance objective and ensures proper oversight of funds and services. This independence is why a parent or a Community Support Worker isn’t typically the broker—doing so can create conflicts of interest or blur roles between family support, service delivery, and planning. Likewise, the participant isn’t expected to be their own broker in most programs, because brokerage is designed to be an external, professional function that safeguards decision-making and fiscal accountability. So the required arrangement is that brokerage services are purchased from a qualified broker or broker agency, distinct from family or direct-service roles.

In Self-Directed services, you work with a dedicated broker who is paid to help you plan, hire services, and manage your budget. The broker is a separate, professional resource you contract and pay for, which keeps guidance objective and ensures proper oversight of funds and services.

This independence is why a parent or a Community Support Worker isn’t typically the broker—doing so can create conflicts of interest or blur roles between family support, service delivery, and planning. Likewise, the participant isn’t expected to be their own broker in most programs, because brokerage is designed to be an external, professional function that safeguards decision-making and fiscal accountability.

So the required arrangement is that brokerage services are purchased from a qualified broker or broker agency, distinct from family or direct-service roles.

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