Not started or approaching school exit
Start OIDD eligibility
Call the official BHDD-OIDD intake line, complete centralized screening, select intake-provider choices when requested, and preserve the confirmation.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Request BHDD-OIDD eligibilityBefore you start
- Applicant name, date of birth, Social Security and Medicaid numbers if available, address, telephone, email, South Carolina residency facts, disability information, representative documents, and calendar.
Who to contact
Start with the official BHDD-OIDD intake line or the assigned intake, autism eligibility, or case-management contact. Use the complete notice for reconsideration or appeal and the setting-specific protective-report route for abuse.
Step by step
- Call 1-800-289-7012 during the published intake hours and answer the residency and disability screening questions.
- If asked, select three intake providers from the choices read by intake; autism applicants may instead work with an Autism Eligibility Coordinator.
- Save the confirmation letter and record the assigned contact, promised next event, and documents requested.
Expected next
A confirmation letter and contact from the selected intake provider or Autism Eligibility Coordinator, normally described by OIDD as within two weeks.
Save this proof
Call log, provider choices, confirmation letter, assigned contact, requested records, submissions, and dates.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Call the intake line and ask it to confirm the application, assigned route, contact, and missing next event.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Start OIDD eligibility checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Request BHDD-OIDD eligibility, Autism eligibility and evaluation, Find a BHDD-OIDD service provider
Official resources
Limits
The published two-week contact expectation is not an eligibility-decision guarantee. Application does not establish OIDD eligibility, Medicaid, level of care, waiver capacity, plan, authorization, provider, or start.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.