Posts Tagged Medicaid trust

Medicaid Eligibility for Long Term Nursing Care – New 2021 Spousal Impoverishment and Home Equity Allowances

Are you worried about protecting your family assets from the increasingly high cost of long term nursing home care? Our team of elder law attorneys has significant experience in Medicaid asset protection planning and is well-equipped to assist you in understanding the intricacies of Medicaid eligibility and spend-down requirements.

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Is Transferring Assets to Qualify for Medicaid Against the Law?

Is Transferring Assets to Qualify for Medicaid Against the Law? You may have heard that transferring assets, or helping someone to transfer assets, to achieve Medicaid eligibility is a crime. Is this true? The short answer is, no.  For a brief period it was, and it’s possible, […]

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Income Only Trust: Beware Of Termination Clause

In 2009 Massachusetts Superior Court decided the case of Doherty v. Director of Medicaid (Mass. App. Ct., Essex, No. 08-P-939).  Although this case was decided a couple of years ago in another state, it bears review here in the PA Elder Law arena.  This case deals with […]

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