Like a previous commenter said, the AGs are a welcome help for families who could not afford care for their loved ones, otherwise. However, it comes nowhere near what it actually costs an ALF to care for those residents. 

A real concern for both ALFs and AG recipients is the fact that moneys that are dispersed to the recipients often arrive very late - sometimes late in the month, sometimes months late. One of our AG residents didn't receive money for five months straight. While we were fortunate enough that we could carry that one resident for those months, there could come a time when we cannot. It would be terrible to have to tell families that we could no longer care for their resident because the funds are so far behind and/or are so unreliable.