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Do you need any of these additional services? (continued)

101 Who makes Of those using a self- or
decisions about how participant-directed option,
your budget for who makes decisions about
services is used? how the budget is used?

102 Do you participate in Whether the respondent takes Do you make choices about This question is used to determine whether
decisions about how part in decision-making about how to use your budget for the remaining questions will be asked. If the
to use your supports services and supports supports? person or proxy responding does not take
budget, hiring staff, part in decisions related to the person’s
Are you able to hire and fire
or managing the budget for services, the remaining questions
staff?
services you get? will not be asked.
(Do you self-direct
The remainder of these questions are only
your supports?)
applicable to people who take part in
decision-making about supports budgets.

For the remainder of this section, if a proxy
is responding to these questions, they
should respond based on their perspectives
as a decision-maker (please be sure to use
the respondent rewording for these
questions if talking to a proxy).

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