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Disability Determination Packet Update
2019-04-09 Disability determination update.pdf
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12 Apr, 2019
1.8 mb
Downloads: 7061
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NYLAG Testimony on NYS FY 2019-20 Budget - Joint Hearing of the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees
NYLAG Health statement JOINT HEARING 2-04-2019.pdf
NYLAG Testimony regarding proposals to eliminate spousal refusal, change the CDPAP program, and reduce other Medicaid benefits impacting low-income seniors and people with disabilities.
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04 Mar, 2019
707 kb
Downloads: 2749
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Public Benefits Resources Rules and the Impact of Lump Sum Receipt on Benefits Eligibility
NYSBA Partnership outline and appendix.pdf
Advocates' guide to Resource Rules and Impact of Lump Sums on Benefits eligibility for public assistance, Medicaid, SSI, Subsidized Housing, SNAP, child care subsidies, and HEAP. Authors: Paula Arboleda, Maryanne Joyce and Susan Antos, prepared for 2018 NYSBA Partnership conference, posted with permission.
Includes APPENDIX of referenced documents
Complement to Advocates guide to SNTs posted at http://www.wnylc.com/health/entry/5/
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02 Jan, 2019
3.14 mb
Downloads: 19386
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HRA Medicaid Alert 7/26/18 Special Income Standard for Housing Expenses when Discharged from Nursing Home to MLTC
2018-07-26 Medicaid Alert - Special Income Standard for Discharge from NH to MLTC.pdf
Update about the Special Income Standard for Housing Expenses for Individuals
Discharged from a Nursing Facility and who Enroll into the Managed Long Term Care Program - see article at http://www.wnylc.com/health/entry/212/
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28 Aug, 2018
303 kb
Downloads: 4615
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NYC HRA MICSA Alert April 9, 2018 New Asset Verification System in Nursing Home Applications
2018-04-09 Asset Verification System.pdf
NYC Medicaid alert announcing new Asset Verification System (AVS) that has been rolled out statewide, and started in NYC in January 2018 in Nursing Home applications only, not in Community Medicaid applications. This system applies only in "non-MAGI" cases, meaning for people age 65+, disabled, or blind. This is because MAGI cases (< 65 and not on Medicare) do not have any asset limit.
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08 Jul, 2018
928 kb
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NYC HRA MICSA Alert June 25, 2018 Deferring Approvals of Trusts due to Power of Attorney without authority to Create Trust
2018-06-25 POA Deferring Medicaid Apps - POA not auth for SNT.pdf
Directive elaborates on HRA policy first announced in a MICSA Alert July 26, 2017 (posted on this site) - which requires a Power of Attorney to include a Statutory Gift Rider, if used to establish a Supplemental Needs Trust. This new alert says HRA will defer Medicaid applications where SNT signed by a POA without authority to create and fund the trust. If applicant has capacity to execute a new POA with an SGR, Alert suggests this can be submitted. Full meaning of Alert is not clear.
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08 Jul, 2018
63 kb
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Focus on DAB Part 1
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28 Jun, 2018
402 kb
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NYLAG Testimony on NYS FY 2018-19 Budget - Joint Hearing of the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees
NYLAG Health statement JOINT HEARING 2-7-18 FINAL.pdf
NYLAG Testimony on NYS FY 2018-19 Budget - Joint Hearing of the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees - discusses spousal refusal and spousal impoverishment proposals, Managed long term care changes, and other proposals in NYS proposed budget.
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09 Feb, 2018
541 kb
Downloads: 3324
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Fact Sheet on Holocaust Reparations and Medicaid & Other Federally Funded Benefits
Fact Sheet on Restitution and Federal Benefits (2017 FINAL).pdf
Fact Sheet about a 1994 federal law that exempts restitution to victims of Nazi persecution from being counted toward eligibility for federally funded benefits. Fact sheet originally produced by the Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program when it was housed at Selfhelp Community Services, in conjunction with the Claims Conference. Updated by the Evelyn Frank program that moved to the New York Legal Assistance Group in 2013. (updated Nov. 2017 to include Polish restitution payments)
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07 Nov, 2017
490 kb
Downloads: 11369
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Medicaid Spend-Down - PowerPoint Presentation
Spend-down presentation - 2017 corrected.pptx
This PowerPoint presentation explains the rules, also see the Training Outline on Medicaid Spend-down posted on this site (revised 2017).
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31 Oct, 2017
1.27 mb
Downloads: 53737
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