WI Live-In Exemption

If you fit the state qualifications, please provide proof of residency to SHO office for the exemption process to be initiated. Do not start using paper timesheets until SHO notifies you that you have been approved to use them.

From WI Department of Health Services, a live-in worker is a worker who meets one of the following requirements:

  • The worker permanently resides in the same residence as the member receiving services.

  • The worker permanently resides in a two-residence dwelling (such as a duplex) where the member receiving services lives in the other half of the dwelling and is a relative of the member. A relative is defined as a person related, of any degree, by blood, adoption, or marriage, to the member.

Permanent residency is determined by the worker being able to produce documentation that shows the worker’s name and current residential address. The address on documentation must match the client’s address (and the above requirements regarding duplex). Addresses with more than two units are not acceptable unless the two share the same unit number. The worker may use one item from List A or two items from List B:

List A (Choose One)

  • Current and valid WI driver’s license or state ID card

  • Other official ID card or license issued by a Wisconsin governmental body or unit

  • Real estate tax bill or receipt for the current year

  • Residential lease for current year

  • Check or other document issued by a unit of government within the last three months

List B (Choose Two)

  • Current or past month’s gas, electric, or phone service statement

  • Current or past month’s bank statement

  • Current or past month’s paycheck or paystub from an employer other than Supportive Homecare Options, Inc.

Employees who fulfill the live-in requirements may receive an exemption from Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) timekeeping requirements, as long as they have provided required documentation to SHO Human Resources at least annually (and each time they move residences). Employees with recent or new address changes cannot use SHO paychecks to prove residency. Employees who submit false documentation will be subject to disciplinary action up to termination.

While the state offers an EVV exemption to employees with Live-In status, any employee who has received a disciplinary action for severe timekeeping violations during their tenure with SHO will lose the privilege of using paper timesheets, and must, therefore, use EVV to record worktimes.

See the handbook on Paylocity for full policy and procedure regarding exemption and timekeeping policies.