If a person provides gifts within five years of the Medicaid application, then the County Board of Social Services will presume that those gifts were provided for Medicaid planning. The individual who provides gifts within five years of the application…
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Change in Medicaid Laws: Minimum Amount Increases for Healthier Spouse
When a healthier spouse requires long-term care in a nursing home facility, then that care can quickly deplete the family’s life savings. Fortunately, there are federal and state laws that prevent the healthier spouse from being impoverished. When a spouse…
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Additional Rules Concerning a Qualified Income Trust
New Jersey permits a person to reduce his or her monthly income below the Medicaid income cap through the use of a Qualified Income Trust, also known as a QIT. There are legal requirements, however, for the establishment of a…
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Qualified Income Trust Can Reduce Income to Qualify for Medicaid
In order to qualify for Medicaid to pay for long-term care, a person must have little assets and must also have a monthly income that is less than the “income cap”. Beginning January 2020, the Medicaid income cap in the…
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Income Cap Changes for 2020
Medicaid is the only government long-term care insurance program. Each of the 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., has Medicaid to help individuals pay for their long-term care needs at home, in an assisted living facility and a nursing…
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