The Department of Health and Human Services shall allocate medicaid waiver benefits under section 68-1530 based on appropriations by the Legislature for such waiver and give priority status in the following order: (1) First, to disabled children and family units in crisis situations in which the disabled child tends to self-injure or injure siblings and other family members; (2) Second, to disabled children who are at risk for placement in juvenile detention centers, other institutional settings, or out-of-home placements; (3) Third, to disabled children whose primary caretakers are grandparents because no other family caregivers are available to provide care; (4) Fourth, to families who have more than one disabled child residing in the family home; and (5) Fifth, based on the date of application under the family support program.
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