JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some Missouri Republicans have remained adamantly opposed to expanding Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of adults by tapping into billions of federal dollars available under ...

Long-term care costs like nursing home care can quickly drain retirement savings. Medicare provides little help paying these ...

Jenn Ochs lobbies against Medicaid cuts in Washington, D.C. for the 2025 Disability Policy Seminar. Courtesy: Jenn Ochs Anyone who benefits from Medicaid is restricted by asset limits. To receive ...

Since Maggie is in her 60s and still working, it’s unlikely she would meet the requirements for undue hardship if the state was to seize her mother’s home. It’s important to note that the state may ...

Flaherty said the asset limits in particular were set in the 1970s and haven't been indexed to inflation in any way. When a person goes over the asset limit, she said, they become "trapped in ...

Whether or not a house is counted as assets under Medicaid coverage depends on a number of factors. For example, if Lillian ...

Many older Americans share the common worry: what happens to my hard-earned savings, Individual Retirement Account (IRA), or even my home if I need long-term care in a nursing home? The fear of losing ...

Laura DiErrico had a history with Connecticut's Medicaid program long before she joined a lawsuit against the department that administers it. Originally from Madison, she relied on Medicaid while ...

MICHIGAN, USA — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to change a policy that would raise the asset limit for Medicaid qualifications. Typically, Medicare has a limit ...

PORTLAND — When her elderly mother’s cognitive impairment from dementia worsened in the late 1990s, Sebra Barcuis knew she needed to get her into a long-term care program that provided the necessary ...