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After my mother has been living in a nursing home for a year, the nursing home just asked me to provide receipts for how I spend my mother's $60 a month allotment from her Social Security check. They say it...

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• Guardianship/Conservatorship
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• Medicaid Rules

A Medicaid lien was never removed from my father’s house after he returned home from a rehab/nursing home facility in N.Y. Now since his passing, in trying to sell the house the lien shows up. Anything we can do?...

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• Medicaid Rules

When they were working, my parents saved $50,000 for any major health expense they might have. Currently they live with me and only receive Social Security, which is not enough for them to live on their own. I would like...

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• Medicaid Planning

My mother-in-law has an IRA. She is applying for Medicaid and moving to an assisted living facility. My husband is permanently disabled, and I have read that it is okay to transfer assets to a disabled child. Can she liquidate...

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• Medicaid Planning

If a property appraisal was never obtained when a parent died (2016), how can we determine the cost basis in order to calculate the capital gains taxes? Four siblings inherited the home and plan to sell it.

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• Senior Living
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• Estate Planning

My estranged father passed away in November 2016. I am still waiting for the estate to be settled. How long does this generally take?...

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• Estate Planning

Where do I go to find something about retaining secondary health insurance while a senior citizen is in a nursing home? Medicaid wants the money that we pay monthly for my 86-year-old mother-in-law's secondary insurance. The elder law attorney told...

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• Medicaid Rules

Are payments to third parties subject to Medicaid’s five-year look-back rule? If I purchase item(s) for my child, but make the check out to a third party (i.e., check paid to retailer for appliances, to firm for landscaping services, to...

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• Medicaid Planning
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• Medicaid Rules

I would like to know whether I would qualify for the caretaker exemption under Medicaid rules if my parents transferred their home to me. I have been caring for my elderly parents in their home in New York State for...

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• Medicaid Rules