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Someone recently asked me the following question: Can a Miller Trust be used to pay funeral expenses? In case you were wondering the same thing, let’s take a look at the answer. There are a couple important points you need to know about the Texas Medicaid Miller Trust. First, a Miller Trust only receives the…
If your spouse is currently in a nursing home or expected to be placed in a nursing home in the near future you might be asking yourself: “why in the world would I create a Miller Trust for my spouse’s income? Isn’t it going to interfere with my ability to use his or her income?”…
If your parent or spouse’s gross monthly income is more than the current Medicaid income limit of $2,163 then they need a properly created and administered Miller Trust (also know as a Qualified Income Trust or QIT) in order to have the HHSC disregard their over the limit income. So once they have the required…
Visitors to TexasTitle19.com should be well aware that there are a whole lot of criteria that the HHSC uses to evaluate your parent or spouse’s eligibility for nursing home Medicaid benefits. If your parent or spouse does not satisfy all of the criteria to establish eligibility, they are probably headed for a denial of benefits…
Miller Trusts (also known as Qualified Income Trusts) exist to fulfill a very specific purpose in the world of Texas Nursing Home Medicaid eligibility. In order to fulfill that purpose, everyone involved with the Miller Trust must perform their roles correctly. Failure to do so can result in the Miller Trust not working as intended…