Resource Eligibility

2024 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards Announced

On November 14, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the 2024 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards. The…

12 months ago

2024 SSI Amounts and Estimated Impact on Medicaid

Effective January 1, 2024, the federal Supplemental Security Income payment amount will increase by 3.2 percent. The amounts paid to…

12 months ago

Medicaid Questions: Am I Eligible?

Am I Eligible for Medicaid? Recently we were asked about the following fact pattern. Parent had multiple properties in different…

12 months ago

Medicaid Trust Case Remanded for Further Proceedings

Harves V. Rusyniak In Harves v. Rusyniak, 23A-PL-671 (9/26/2023), the Indiana Court of Appeals found that the Family and Social…

1 year ago

Tennessee Justice Center Presents Medicaid Eligibility Boot Camp

On October 24th and 25th, 2023, the Tennessee Justice Center will present its annual two day virtual training event on…

1 year ago

NEW VIDEO: Medicaid – 2023 Financial Eligibility

We're just getting to the point where we're producing videos for EZ Elder Law. There are, after all, only so…

1 year ago

Burial Resources and Life Insurance

The SSI rules are a good beginning point because Medicaid cannot impose rules more restrictive than the SSI rules. SSI…

1 year ago

Marriage, Living in Sin and Common Law Marriage

Obviously, if you follow the law, get a license and have the event officiated, you're married. See O.C.G.A. ยง 19-3-1…

1 year ago

Court Cannot Substitute its Judgment for SNT Trustee’s Judgment as long as the Trustee Act Within Proper Limits

In McGee v. State Dep't of Health Care Servs., 2023 Ca. App. LEXIS 409 (Cal. Ct. App., 3d Dist. 5/24/2023),…

1 year ago

Selected Georgia Medicaid Decisions

The following Georgia Medicaid cases were litigated outside the context of an administrative hearing, or were appealed beyond that point.…

1 year ago