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Sample Cover Letter to Medicaid with SNT (updated May 2024
Sample cover letter SNT GENERIC.docx
Sample cover letter to local DSS/HRA accompany the documentation of a Medicaid recipient's enrollment in an SNT or pooled trust and request disability determination. Note that this does NOT give argument for why applicant is disabled, as that will be addressed to the NYS DOH Disability Review Unit...
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13 May, 2024
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Medicaid Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) in New York State
May 2024 ALERT - Learn about CDPAP changes adopted in final NYS FY 24-25 BUDGET - HERE - effective April 1, 2025 2023 UPDATE - see directives issued Oct. 2023 here clarifying that a legal guardian may be a personal assistant in CDPAP if someone else is the "designated representative. In 2020,...
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13 May, 2024
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Drastic CDPAP Changes and other Medicaid Outcomes of Final NYS 24-25 Budget
FINAL NYS ENACTED BUDGET for 2024-25 Make Huge Changes in CDPAP That will Potentially Disrupt Care for 200,000 New Yorkers. 1. CDPAP CHANGES ENACTED: SINGLE FISCAL INTERMEDIARY Now there are more than 600 Fiscal Intermediaries (FI's) that handle payroll and benefits for all Personal...
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13 May, 2024
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Unwinding of COVID Public Health Emergency in progress - Tips to Renew Medicaid!
Since March 2020, special protections guaranteed Continuous Coverage for anyone who HAD Medicaid In March 2020 or obtained Medicaid since then. These "Maintenance of Effort" (MOE) protections are being phased out while every Medicaid recipient goes through a renewal of current eligibility. This...
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13 May, 2024
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Right to a "Home Hearing" under Varshavsky Case - Special Rights in Fair Hearings Seeking Increases in Medicaid Home Care
RIGHTS of People Who Cannot Travel to a Fair Hearing Because of Disability This article can also be downloaded as a Fact Sheet here. Individuals who, because of mental or physical disabilities, cannot travel to a fair hearing without substantial hardship or medical detriment, have rights...
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08 May, 2024
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Currency Conversion Worksheet for Holocaust Reparations
Reparation worksheet.xls (04-2024).xlsx
Use this worksheet to convert lifetime total amount received in Holocaust reparations / restitution from foreign currencies (Deutschmarks and Euros) into U.S. Dollars. This is for purposes of taking advantage of the exemption of saved reparations payments from the resource test for Federally-funded...
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02 May, 2024
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How to use a pooled SNT to eliminate the Medicaid spend-down.
This Fact Sheet explains how to use a Pooled Supplemental Needs Trust to eliminate the Medicaid spend-down (updated for 2024) - See SPANISH TRANSLATION. N. Y. Social Services Law § 366, subd. 5 (f) - Law enacted Dec. 18, 2017 - NEW LAW enacted that requires the State Dept. of Health to...
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02 May, 2024
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Step-by-step guide to enrolling in a pooled income trust for Medicaid spend-down
This article is a condensed road-map for using a pooled income trust to eliminate the Medicaid spend-down. NEW June 2022 - Big Changes in NYC - See STEP TWO and STEP Three below - NEW DISABILITY forms required! DOWNLOAD OUR our longer FACT SHEET on this topic (updated May 2024 to reflect...
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02 May, 2024
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Using an SNT to Eliminate the Medicaid spend-down - Fact Sheet (May 2024)
SNT Short 2024-05-02 FINAL.pdf
How to get Medicaid despite having "excess income" - Using a Supplemental Needs Trust to Eliminate the Spend-down for Persons who are Elderly (65+), Blind or Disabled. Written by New York Legal Assistance Group Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program, updated May 2024 with new procedures in...
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02 May, 2024
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Nursing Home Medicaid Coverage - Basic Financial Eligibility Rules about Income, Resources, and Spousal Protections
Medicaid rules are different for people living in the "community" than people living in institutions. For this article, the word "institution" means nursing home care. If you live in your home, someone else's home, or an Assisted Living Program, you are considered to live in the "community." ...
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29 Apr, 2024
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