Because access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) depends on a beneficiary's income and resources, even small increases in income can cause a reduction or loss of SSI benefits. Unfortunately, when an SSI beneficiary's parent is ordered to pay child support,...
Attorneys who focus on special needs planning have dedicated their practices to helping families with a wide variety of legal issues, and they must master a vast section of the legal canon in order to properly assist their clients. Here's...
The advent of stringent reporting obligations for claimants entitled to Medicare has triggered a discussion among legal professionals regarding whether Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs) are required in liability cases under preexisting provisions of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP). In...
On April 4, 2009 ASNP Charter Member, Mark Biernath, joined other guests, Heidi J. Moore and Kendra & David Goerke to talk about Financial Planning For Special Needs Children.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients must adhere to very strict rules regarding how much income they can receive in any given month or risk losing benefits.
A development company run by the family of San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos has agreed to make some 12,300 apartment units accessible for people with disabilities in order to settle what is being called the largest housing accessibility...
Written by two certified financial planners with special needs family members, this easy-to-understand guide is a comprehensive resource that addresses all areas of special needs planning.
When Richard West, a 63-year-old veteran with muscular dystrophy, caught his home health care provider overbilling the state of New Jersey for services that it provided to Medicaid patients, he never expected that the state would reward him for his...
Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (MMSEA) adds new mandatory reporting requirements for insurers to determine whether a claimant is a Medicare beneficiary and report claim information. Ignorance of the law in this area...
