Nursing home residents do not automatically have to sell their homes to qualify for Medicaid. However, that does not necessarily mean the house is completely safe from estate recovery. The state will likely put a lien on the house while the resident is living and then attempt to recover the ...
Even though a personal residence does not count as an asset for determining your eligibility for Medicaid, the Department of Social Services can still place a lien on it after your death, so that the house would have to be sold to satisfy the lien instead of going to your heirs as an in...
What Is a Lien? If Medicaid places a lien on your home, it means that Medicaid has a legal claim to that piece of property. In other words, the state Medicaid agency has the right to use your home as collateral if the estate is unable to pay the costs of the Medicaid recipient’s ...
"Your letter to the Medi-Cal office did the trick. They are no longer threatening to put a lien on my house. I cannot thank you enough for helping me protect my home." Your letter to the Medi-Cal office did the trick. They are no longer threatening to put a lien on my house. I...
We help clients understand their legal options and teach them how to minimize the Medicaid transfer penalty, save their home from a Medicaid lien, preserve their hard-earned money for their family, and qualify for Medicaid much sooner than they thought without first having to spend everything ...
33 In addition, states can not recover against a beneficiary’s home on which the state hasplaced a lien, unless additional protections for siblings and adult children are satisfied. 34 There is no document that records or explains why the age floor was changed from 65years old (in pre-OBRA...
lien has been placed on the home when certain individuals reside in the home. Such instances include (1) a sibling of an individual who has resided in the home at least one year prior to the individual entering an institution, and (2) an adult child who has resided in the home for ...