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Medicaid Coverage for Long-Term Care: Eligibility, Asset Transfers, and Estate Recovery (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 31, 2008
Report Number RL33593
Report Type Report
Authors Julie Stone, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

This report provides an explanation of Medicaid's current eligibility, assettransfer, and estate recovery rules. A policy discussion of the potential implicationsof these rules follows. Appendix 1 provides a summary of DRA's provisions concerning assettransfers, eligibility, and estate recovery. Appendix 2 summarizes the SupplementalSecurity Income (SSI) rules concerning countable and non-countable assets, oftenused by states for Medicaid eligibility purposes.