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Can you tell me what a "Medicaid-qualifying annuity" is?...

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If I were approved for Medicaid coverage of my nursing home care, I know they would keep my Social Security and my small pension, but what would happen to the $6,500 balance on my credit card? I have no other...

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Father is in a nursing home with Medicaid paying. Mom is still at home. If my father dies and mom is still in the home, will Medicaid place a lien on the home?  Should we have a new will drawn...

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• Medicaid Rules

My mother gave me money in 2009.  Now (2013) she is in a nursing home and needs to get Mediciad.  Does that money need to go back in her account because of Medicaid's five-year lookback?...

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I own a house with my 79-year-old mother.  Both our names are on the loan that we have had for 15 years.  She now is in need of a nursing home, but we still have a mortgage together and I...

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My husband and I are considering setting up a trust for our estate. However, we will probably be moving to another state for his job in the next five years. Are trusts transferable to another state or would we have...

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• Estate Planning

My mother went from private pay to Medicaid pay in her nursing home January 1, 2013. She now has zero money and all of her Social Security goes to the nursing home. She has a modest, unoccupied home that I...

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• Medicaid Rules

I am 75 and my fiance is 82. We would like to get married, but he is afraid that if I would need to be in a nursing home down the road, he might not have enough left to cover...

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• Medicaid Rules

My mother is the primary beneficiary of a trust left by my grandfather. She is not a trustee, and my sister and I are secondary beneficiaries. Are the assets in this trust counted as assets by Medicaid? ...

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• Estate Planning