Can You Give These Gifts and Still Get Texas Nursing Home Medicaid?

You aren’t the only person looking for a way to protect assets from those huge nursing home bills. While many people make hasty mistakes, you are at least doing your research to avoid those mistakes. So let’s talk about giving things away. Too many people don’t even recognize transactions they are making are actually penalized…

Texas Medicaid Eligibility for 2010

This post was written for Medicaid eligibility in 2010. For current Medicaid Eligibility information, visit: https://texastitle19.com/texas-nursing-home-medicaid-eligibility/ Certain numbers used to determine eligibility for Texas Medicaid benefits are subject to change every January 1st. This year there were not many changes. Unfortunately the minimum and maximum Community Spousal Protected Resource Amounts remained the same. The current figures…

Many IRA Accounts Are Counted Assets for Medicaid

Retirement accounts can cause a lot of confusion when planning for Texas Medicaid eligibility. This is in large part due to the many different kinds of retirement accounts out there. Today we are going to look at one very common kind of retirement account, the individual retirement account, or IRA. This includes the traditional IRA…

How Long Will You Have To Pay The Nursing Home Bill?

Sometimes a loved one enters a nursing home as the result of the gradual progression of an illness such as Alzheimer’s. Sometimes a loved one needs nursing home care unexpectedly and everyone is caught by surprise and quickly finds themselves in a overwhelming situation. In either case, one of the vital questions you need to…