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Major Asset Transfer Restrictions Dropped From Senate Bill
Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee were reported to have reached an agreement on Medicaid and other...
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GAO Study Fails to Find Significant Medicaid Asset Transfer Problem
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reinforces claims that the level of assets being transfe...
Read moreFeds Approve Vermont Program Giving Medicaid Recipients Alternatives to Nursing Home Care
If they possibly can, most people who require long-term care would prefer to receive services in their own homes ins...
Read moreProposed Medicaid Transfer Changes Will Hurt Elderly, ELA Member Tells Senate Committee
Testifiying before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging July 20, New York ElderLawAnswers member atto...
Read moreAnother Study Casts Doubt on the Need to Tighten Medicaid Transfer Laws
A new issue paper by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that most elderly people do not have assets sufficient to fi...
Read morePoll Finds Most Americans Support Right of Elderly to Transfer Assets
A new public opinion poll by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation concludes the majority of Americans oppose eli...
Read moreNew Study Questions Benefit of Estate Recovery Programs
In 1993, Congress passed a law requiring that states try to recover from the estates of deceased Medicaid recipient...
Read moreNew Medicare Drug Law Puts Lowest-Income Elderly at Risk
A little-noticed provision of the new Medicare drug law will cause serious '” and perhaps irreparable '” harm to many ...
Read moreELA Member Is Featured in New York Times Article on Medicaid Planning
ElderLawAnswers member Vi...
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