At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Social Security Administration (SSA) closed all 1,200 of its field offices to in-person appointments, as well as suspended numerous other services. One distressing result is that the number of new Supplemental Security...
Long-term care involves not only a loss of personal autonomy; it also comes at a tremendous financial price. Proper planning can help your family prepare for the financial toll and protect assets for future generations. Long-term care can be very expensive, especially...
While a will is one of the most important estate planning documents you can have, there are things that it won’t cover. A will is just one part of a comprehensive estate plan. A will is a legally-binding statement directing who will receive your property at your...
Massachusetts’ highest court holds that a Medicaid applicant retaining a life estate in a house placed in a “nominee trust” does not make the house a countable asset for Medicaid eligibility purposes. Guilfoil v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human...
Prices of new long-term care insurance policies for 2021 have have been posted in the annual report from the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, an industry group. The price increases appy to new, not current policies. Comparing the 2021 prices with...
This is something of a gray area. Any gift is a transfer of assets that must be reported on an application for Medicaid benefits and can cause a period of ineligibility. If the gifts you’re describing are small, they would cause only a few weeks of ineligibility. This...
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