How to Qualify for Medicaid: Eligibility and Transfer Rules

Many people believe that if they give away an amount equal to the annual gift tax exclusion -- which is currently $15,000 to any one individual -- this gift will be exempted from Medicaid's five-year look-back at transfers that could...

Although their names are confusingly alike, Medicaid and Medicare are quite different programs.

For many Medicaid applicants, individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are one of their biggest assets.

Medicaid 101

A fear that the government will seize their house after they die is causing some people to not sign up for expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

When one member of a couple moves to a nursing home, we expect that spouse will be the first to die, but this isn’t always the case. What happens if a Medicaid recipient's spouse dies first?...

Medicaid 101

The "community spouse resource allowance" or CSRA assures that the spouses of Medicaid applicants will be able to keep at least some of the couple's assets.  ...

Medicaid 101

What if most of a couple's income is in the name of the institutionalized spouse and the income of the spouse living in the community is not enough to live on?  Medicaid has created some protections.

Medicaid 101

In order to qualify for Medicaid, you can't have more than $2,000 in assets (in most states). Many people forget about life insurance when calculating their assets, but depending on the type of life insurance and the value of the...

Medicaid 101

Whether you should prepare and file a Medicaid application by yourself or should hire help depends on answers to the following questions:...

Medicaid 101