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Massachusetts Medicaid Planning Update

Todd Lutsky, Esq., LLM & Tom McKinnon, Esq.
Cushing & Dolan Elder Law Centers

Last Minute Medicaid Techniques: Come learn How To:

  • Protect the primary residence for married and single folks;
  • Make countable rental property non-countable
  • Make countable vacation property non-countable
  • Protect life insurance policies (whole life vs. term life)
  • Protect excess resources through Medicaid annuities and pooled trusts.
  • Differentiate Countable vs. non-countable assets
  • Deal with the caretaker child exception, related rules, and recent fair hearing decisions
  • Medicaid liens operate and how they can actually be a good thing
  • The five year lookback period operates and related exceptions vs. the penalty period;
  • Special needs trusts and sole benefit trusts operations
  • Get a family worth $2 million eligible for Medicaid last minute when one spouse gets sick.

Drafting & Taxation of Irrevocable Income Only Trusts: Come learn How To:

  • Draft irrevocable trusts to withstand MassHealth’s scrutiny;
  • Frequent arguments made by MassHealth
  • Eligibility operations memo 20-04
  • Recent Fair Hearing Decisions and SJC Cases that support irrevocable trusts, Administrative, consistency and due process.
  • Eligibility operations memo 20-04
  • How the Limited Power of Appointment operates.
  • Grantor trust rules for income tax purposes
  • 26 U.S.C. section 1014 (a) and step up in basis works with these trusts
  • Gift tax consequences of these trusts 26 CFR Section 25.2511(c)
  • Estate tax consequences of these trusts including drafting of the marital and remainder shares to both protect assets and shelter for estate taxes;
  • Eligibility operations memo 19-12 re-defining calculation of life estates, remainder values, etc

Testamentary Trusts, IRAs, and Life Insurance:

  • How trust and transfer rules apply to testamentary trusts, how to draft them, and how they operate;
  • Estate and Income tax benefits of naming the Estate as the designating beneficiary, calculation
  • of RMD, and other benefits and potential pitfalls.

Includes Over 1,000+ Pages

Massachusetts Medicaid Planning Survival Guide
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