---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 441.482"
title: "42"
number: "441.482"
heading: "Permissible purchases."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/441.482"
---

# §441.482. Permissible purchases.

- (a) Participants, or their representatives, if applicable, may, at the State's option, use their service budgets to pay for items that increase a participant's independence or substitute (such as a microwave oven or an accessibility ramp) for human assistance, to the extent that expenditures would otherwise be made for the human assistance.
- (b) The services, supports and items that are purchased with a service budget must be linked to an assessed participant need or goal established in the service plan.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 73 FR 57881, Oct. 3, 2008, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45229, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.