Question: Can a nursing home bill a resident who is a prospective long-term care Medicaid applicant a sufficient amount (around $5,000) to reduce total cash resources to less than $2,000? The [...]
Question: I am 60, disabled, and on SSI and medicaid. I was recently in a car accident, and am expecting a decent sized (about $60K) settlement. I do not want to lose my SSI and Medicaid [...]
Question: MassHealth regulation 520.024 seems to me to state that any non-principal residence in a trust — even one created by will and where the trustee has no requirements regarding [...]
Question: If someone is in a nursing home on Medicaid and they own a home, if said home is now being sold, how does one report to Medicaid that the home is sold? I have searched all over for this [...]
Question: I am 55, live in New Jersey and received Medicaid. I have a 14-year-old child living with me. I own a house. If one day I pass away, will the state seek estate recovery for the money I [...]
Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash Question: Can a special needs trust for a minor child pay the parents’ mortgage or rent? What about buying a house that the whole family lives in? [...]
Question: My mother-in-law has been given approximately six months to a year to live and would like to pass the house to my husband, her only child, and avoid probate. Would a life estate deed [...]
Question: When a husband is about to apply for Medicaid long-term care benefits, and a community-spouse (non-applicant) wife is trying to reduce her assets below the limit of about $130,000, what [...]
Question: I am POA (Power of Attorney) for my 91-year-old uncle. For the past 2.5 years, he has been enrolled with MassHealth PACE. He receives about $1,300 a month combined from Social Security [...]
Question: I need to sell my mother’s life insurance policy to bring down her assets to qualify for Medicaid, but it doesn’t have enough value to prepay for her funeral. The insurance [...]