In most states retirement accounts and retirement annuities are treated differently for Medicaid purposes. A retirement account will traditionally be considered under the retirement asset rules, and applied to eligibility accordingly. A retirement annuity will ...

Generally speaking, after the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, if a community spouse uses a Medicaid Compliant Annuity, or promissory note, to eliminate the spend-down amount an institutionalized spouse is immediately eligible for Medicaid benefits. ...

Trusts come in many different forms and are used for many different purposes. Generally, trusts are either revocable or irrevocable, grantor or non-grantor, inter vivos or testamentary, and simple or complex. Trusts are used to ...