My mom has MS and is losing her sight. My dad is being tested for signs of Alzheimer's. I need to find out if I can be paid to be their in home caregiver. But I cannot find that information anywhere. Like how much are you paid? And how is that arranged?
If you are quitting a well paid job with perks, think carefully before you do this. Caregiving for 6 mos morphs into 6 years. Even if they can qualify for Medicaid & IHHSS, it will not replace what you could make & build for retirement unless you are already very low income already or are already yourself retired & with a decent retirement income so the IHHSS $ is just extra.
If your folks have assets, they won't qualify for MediCal but they can do a personal care contract with you to pay you as thier caregiver. This really needs to be done by an experienced elder law atty in CA. Again there is taxes, W2, FICA. Often they have just too much to qualify for Medicaid so they essentially spend down by legitimately hiring you to be a paid caregiver.
There is no simple easy solution.