What Family Caregivers Get Paid, State by State, 2026 (PaidToCare)

This dataset covers whether a family member can be paid to care for a relative at home in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia: the main Medicaid self-direction or family caregiver program, whether an adult child or a spouse can be paid, published pay rates where the state publishes one, the first call to make, VA caregiver programs, and the official source for each answer with the date it was checked. Paid family caregiving is confirmed from official sources in 49 states and DC (50 in all). Alaska is the one jurisdiction not yet confirmed. Each row was checked against official sources only, and every answer carries its official source and the date it was checked. Where an official page does not state something, the dataset says so rather than guessing. Rules change: check the official source in each row before relying on a value. Not legal advice. File checksums (sha256): states-that-pay-family-caregivers.csv 7c77b185f70312a34e38025f48354d85728ff3c5b808b5e48da7bbf7e0c35da6; family-caregiver-pay-2026.csv 8703716ca44236780064c2472e4e4b6fdc86520446694fe72b39e4b80cded1e1. Published by PaidToCare (https://paidtocare.org/), an independent public resource run by Willow Creek Group LLC, St. Clairsville, Ohio. The live, maintained version is at https://paidtocare.org/report/family-caregiver-pay-2026/.