Optional payments towards principal balance on home equity loan not deducted to calculate MMMNA; required minimum monthly payments are included, and MMMNA is increased accordingly.
Category: Thomas Goode
Appeal 1716522
- Issue is whether MassHealth was correct in denying coverage prior to a date due to resource transfers. MassHealth ordered to rescind the notice and determine MassHealth eligibility without regard to the resource transfers.
Appeal 1600269
- Appellant’s long-term care application denied because MassHealth determined there had been a disqualifying resource transfer (this resulted in an ineligibility period). The transfer was an annuity which was a private, inter-family, unsecured agreement found to be disqualifying.
Appeal 1513371
The patient paid amount charged for May 2015 is incorrect; and therefore, the amount the nursing facility asserts that Appellant owes is also incorrect.
Appeal 1404097
The HR Realty Trust is in fact revocable by appellant because she is the Settlor, regardless of her resignation as Trustee; appellant and her late husband removed the property from the HR Trust on May 20, 2004, and deeded the property back to themselves as tenants by the entirety so that they could obtain a mortgage; home is countable asset.
Appeal 1216920
Community spouse refused to disclose her assets (assets held by her individually); community spouse had assigned to MassHealth the institutionalized spouse’s rights to support; community spouse’s responsibility to disclose assets held individually is waived if the institutionalized spouse’s right to support from the community spouse has been assigned to the state; MassHealth ordered to proceed with substantive determination of eligibility.
Appeal 0809900
The caregiver agreement entered into by appellant’s daughter in her capacity as appellant’s power-of-attorney, and appellant’s son as caregiver, is a disqualifying transfer of assets; less than fair market value; no acceptable tangible evidence that appellant received an assisted living level of care in her son’s home.
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