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In this week’s post, I continue to discuss a common fact pattern we see in our office.  The case involves someone who needs long term care, doesn’t have enough to pay for it but does have a house.  As I explained last week, the available government benefit programs don’t always cover the

In last week’s post I explained that when the non-Medicaid spouse dies, the Medicaid spouse must receive at least a minimum amount of assets from the deceased spouse.  This is known as the elective share and in New Jersey is determined to be 1/3 of the deceased spouse’s estate less what

In my post last week I explained that once a Medicaid application is approved, everything isn’t on autopilot.  What I mean is that you must be vigilant so as not to lose the benefits once you have them. That can happen a number of ways such as a change in circumstance. 

Whenever I talk to families about how to get Medicaid approved, there are so many elements to a successful application and so many confusing requirements that the tendency is to relax a bit, thinking the job is done when we first get the application approved. One example is with respect to

As I have written about frequently in this blog, many of the Medicaid and VA benefit numbers are updated annually.  Most are adjusted in lock step with Social Security’s cost of living adjustment (COLA).  With inflation being as high as it has been in many years, the COLA for 2023 was also