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Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Disabled Persons and Family Support

What you get

Help with home changes, care, equipment, therapy, supplies, and medical travel for severe disability. Open now.

Who starts it
You, with a letter from your doctor
How it’s sent
Email to dhhs.DPFS@nebraska.gov
Your time
About 15 minutes, plus waiting for the letter
Last checked
Aug 27, 2026

Before you start, check you fit

  • Cancer alone is not enough to meet the disability rule.
  • Cancer alone may not satisfy disability, SSI, Medicaid, developmental, caregiver, or level-of-care requirements; individual authorization and capacity rules apply.

  1. Ask your doctor for the letterStart here. This is the part that takes the longest.

    Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services needs a letter from your doctor. It has to cover 2 things. Copy this message, or say it in person at the next visit.

    Hi [doctor’s name],

We’d like to apply to Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services’s Disabled Persons and Family Support. They offer help with home changes, care, equipment, therapy, supplies, and medical travel for severe disability, and they are taking applications now.

They need a letter from you. It has to cover complete DDA-2 Section II and return or send the signed report to DPFS. Their form and instructions are here: https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Disabled-Persons-and-Family-Support.aspx

Could you write that when you have a chance? I’ll bring the printed form to our next visit, or I can email it. Thank you for everything you do for us.

[your name] · [phone]
    Copying is the only thing this page does with your text. Nothing is saved.

  2. Fill in their formPrint it, or fill it in on screen if the PDF allows.

    Open the application PDF ↗ Checked Aug 27, 2026

    What the form asks for

    Applicant and personal-care needs
    Applicant's Name, Phone Number, Birthdate, Mailing Address, EmailDescribe personal care needs requiring assistance to remain in an independent living situation
    Licensed professional disability report · your care team fills this in
    In your opinion, does this applicant meet the disability requirements given above, AND, is the disability likely to continue indefinitelyPlease give a brief statement INCLUDING DIAGNOSIS

    Have ready

    • Completed DPFS service/device self-assessment.

  3. Email your application and the letter togetherTo dhhs.DPFS@nebraska.gov. Your doctor can send it instead if the letter has to stay with them.

    • Email dhhs.DPFS@nebraska.gov, fax 402-742-8396, or mail DPFS, PO Box 98933, Lincoln, NE 68509-8933.

    Email: dhhs.DPFS@nebraska.gov

    Fax: 402-742-8396

    Subject: Disabled Persons and Family Support application, [child’s name]

Hello,

Attached are our completed application and the letter from [doctor’s name] at [hospital]. Please let me know that it arrived and if anything is missing.

Thank you,
[your name] · [phone]

After you send

Call 402-471-9188 to confirm the complete application and disability report were received. If you have not heard back in two weeks, write and ask whether it arrived.

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