In Bell Gardens, Raquel Martinez said she has relied for nearly three years on a program that pays an assistant to help her make it safely to her frequent appointments at the MLK Medical Campus.

The state of California spent 16 years developing a new payroll system for the in-home supportive services program. Its initial roll out has gone so badly that Orange County officials are warning the ...

I’ve been an in-home supportive services provider in Marin County since 2021. I work with low income, disabled adults who are in my age range – between 60 and 85 years old. The IHSS program, ...

“¿Quieres bailar?” Norma Galvan asks her father in Spanish if he would like to dance on a recent Friday afternoon. The 83-year-old replies “Sí, sí,” — “Yes, yes” — as his daughter guides his feet into ...

Nikki Diaz is slowly dying. The 48-year old has a degenerative muscle disease that is causing her muscles to literally waste away. "I can only move my fingers and my wrist and my feet and my toes and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A mother and daughter have been sentenced to prison for defrauding the statewide In Home Supportive Services program of tens of thousands of dollars. The ...

The in-home care program funded by Medi-Cal and administered by Alameda County is so fractured, unsupervised and poorly managed that a registered sex offender was able to work as a caretaker, while ...

Reporting from Sacramento — California’s program to provide in-home care for its low-income elderly and disabled residents finds itself once again at the heart of a state budget standoff. It is ...

An In-Home Supportive Services care provider helps a client at her home in Thousand Oaks. Proposed budget cuts would close the IHSS program to unauthorized immigrants. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) In ...