How to Qualify for Medicaid: Eligibility and Transfer Rules

This book offers a rare combination of entertainment and practical, no-nonsense strategies for personal and financial planning. While author and elder law attorney Steve Weisman knows his stuff, he keeps you reading thanks to a breezy style and penchant for...

President Bush today (February 8, 2006)...

By a vote of 216-214, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed budget legislation that will impose punitive new ...

Although Congress passed a new law February 1 further restricting the ability of the elderly to transfer assets befo...

The adult children of elderly parents in many states could be held liable for their parents' nursing home bills. The children could even be subject to criminal penalties. But how often does this happen?...

State nursing home inspectors are missing "serious deficiencies that cause actual harm or immediate jeopardy to pati...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that a long-term care policyholder who moved to a resident...

Click on the link above for the text of the Medicaid asset transfer provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 approved by Congress February 1...

Agreeing with earlier results, a study by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured finds that asset trans...