Repairs are excluded
The Self-Direction Guidance lists repairs among excluded OTPS items. A boiler, a roof, or general maintenance is not a Self-Direction purchase, however necessary it is.
Environmental Modification is the route that exists
E-Mod covers changes that make a home accessible or safe for the person. The request runs through OPWDD's E-Mod guidance and review process rather than through a budget purchase, and it expects a clinical evaluation and a specification of the work.
The framing decides the route. Widening a doorway for a wheelchair is a modification; fixing the door that already fits is a repair.
What Kit can do
Kit can research which route an expense belongs to, preserve the sources it relies on, and prepare a draft request for your review. It cannot approve anything, and neither a Kit page nor a provider listing is an OPWDD or Fiscal Intermediary decision.
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What if a repair is needed before a modification can happen?
They stay separate requests. Necessary pre-move health and safety work can fall under a Housing Transition Stipend in some circumstances, but ordinary maintenance remains excluded from OTPS regardless of what it enables.
Where this comes from
- OPWDD Self-Direction Guidance (March 2022), p. 30 — OTPS exclusions
- OPWDD guidance and review sheet — E-Mod / V-Mod
Kit quotes the governing document. OPWDD and your Fiscal Intermediary decide your request.