Glossary
Enclosure B
Also called: Enclosure B, goods and services guidance, updated goods and services
Last reviewed September 30, 2026
The one-sentence answer
Enclosure B is the DDS document listing what a spending plan can and cannot buy — the closest thing the Self-Determination Program has to a definitive answer on allowable purchases.
What this means for you
When someone says "can I buy X with my budget?", this is where the answer lives. It is worth knowing by name, because a regional center response of "that's not allowable" is checkable against a published document rather than something you have to take on trust.
Some examples it explicitly allows:
- Disability-related vehicle modifications — lifts, ramps, hand brakes — and upkeep of those modifications (code 377)
- Community integration supports (code 331) — socialization, communication skills, therapeutic art and recreation, continuing education, peer mentoring
And explicitly does not allow:
- Room and board — rent, groceries, meals, hotel stays
- General home improvements unrelated to disability — kitchen remodels, pools, roofing, HVAC, appliances
- Purchasing or leasing a vehicle
- Non-disability vehicle work — cosmetic upgrades, and routine maintenance like tires, batteries and oil changes
- Pure entertainment — amusement parks, concert tickets, recreation with no therapeutic or physical benefit
- Entertainment supplies — hobby supplies, television, cable, DVDs
- Payment to a legally responsible person for services
The vehicle rule is the classic edge case and worth understanding properly. You can pay to modify a vehicle; you cannot pay for the vehicle. You can maintain the lift; you cannot pay for the oil change. That line seems arbitrary until you see the logic — the budget covers the disability-related part, not the ordinary cost of owning a car that everyone has.
Check the date on any guidance you read about this, including other websites. The current version is dated 8 July 2024 and supersedes the January 2022 guidance and a November 2023 interim version. A great deal of material online still describes the 2022 version.
It is published in translation, including Tagalog.
For the detail-oriented
Enclosure B accompanies DDS's SDP Updated Goods and Services cover letter of 8 July 2024, alongside Enclosure A, which carries the general rules and the code 333 test.
What is actually in it — the whole document
Enclosure B is five pages and covers four areas, not the long list of service categories people assume. It says so itself: it answers "the most common questions" and "is not all-inclusive."
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Home and living expenses | Housing access supports (314), disability-related home adaptations (356); room and board and general home improvements not allowed |
| Vehicles | Disability-related modifications and their upkeep (377); purchase or lease, cosmetic upgrades and routine maintenance not allowed |
| Community integration | Community integration supports (331); purely recreational spending not allowed |
| Outside the spending plan | Seven things the regional center pays for separately |
If a service is not in Enclosure B, that does not mean it is not allowed. Respite, nursing, technology and most other categories simply are not addressed here. The fuller list of service descriptions lives elsewhere, and this document exists to settle the arguments that come up most.
The third category people miss
Most readers know "allowed" and "not allowed". There is a third: "Available: not included in budget calculation or spending plan" — real services you can have, paid by the regional center outside your budget, so they cost you none of it.
- Competitive Integrated Employment incentives
- Coordinated Career Pathways, the addition this 2024 update was issued to make
- Coordinated Family Supports — assessments, services and incentive payments, through 076
- Insurance co-payments, deductibles and co-insurance
- Paid Internship Program wages
- Rental assistance under W&I Code 4689(i)
- SSI/SSP restoration, a pass-through cash benefit, through code 065
The insurance line is the one worth rereading. Co-pays, deductibles and co-insurance are paid outside the spending plan. If those are being taken out of your budget, that is worth querying.
Specifics worth knowing
On room and board, the prohibition is explicit about a workaround people try: rent, groceries, meals and hotel stays "cannot be purchased directly (for example, paying a respite worker cash) and then billed to a Financial Management Service (FMS) agency for reimbursement."
On community integration (331), the scope is wider than most expect — art and recreation programmes where they are therapeutic or physical, continuing education including a high school equivalency, peer mentoring, mobility services, and friendship and relationship building. But the document names four things outright that cannot be paid for: hobby supplies, television, cable access and DVDs.