This is a table that shows the minimum assets and income each state allows nursing-home residents and their spouses to keep.
Tag: retirement
Feb 01
The Partnership for Long-Term Care
The idea of the Long-Term Care Partnership is to provide a way for the Medicaid program to work together with private long-term care insurance to help those people who are caught in the middle: they can’t afford to pay the cost of the care or even the cost of a long-term care insurance policy with unlimited benefits, yet their assets are too high to qualify for Medicaid to pay their long-term care expenses. Many middle-income workers and retirees find themselves in this position.
Participating insurance companies in the Partnership recognize the needs of these middle-income Americans by providing LTC insurance policies that have built-in consumer protection benefit standards, and participating states cooperate by allowing these policyholders to access Medicaid without spending down their assets almost to poverty level if the insurance benefits run out.
Aug 27
Outside-of-the-Box Thinking About Long-Term Care Planning–One Size Does Not Fit All
As a shoe aficionado, I have observed that long-term care planning is quickly starting to resemble my closet of 100 pairs of shoes.
Mar 11
Denial is Not a River in Egypt
People have a 50 percent chance of needing LTC at some point in life, and about 30 percent of people who do may need care for five years or more, according to a new study by LifePlans, Inc. Being in denial about this could be the worst thing you ever do to the people who love you.
Oct 24
What Does Long-Term Care Cost?
Planning for long-term care is best done with information gathering to make an informed decision. The “deer in headlights” approach doesn’t work.
Jul 26
How an Equity Index Annuity, aka Fixed Index Annuity, Can Help People Who Have Waited Too Late to Buy Long-Term Care Insurance
I found equity index annuities (fixed index annuities) because I was searching for a way to help people who are totally uninsurable for any kind of traditional or combo LTC product.
Jan 05
Long-Term Care is All About the Family…Not the Bass
People worry more about being a burden on their kids when it comes to long-term care than they do about the exorbitant financial cost of extended health care.
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