Settlement Planning

My child with special needs will receive income paid from a special needs trust. Will it reduce their SSI benefits? They need this money for daily expenses and I don't want to create a bigger problem.

Will a special needs trust (or supplemental needs trust) allow my loved one with disabilities to receive gifts or other money without losing their eligibility for their government benefits? My family wants to help.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case that questions just how much money a state can actually recover when it comes time to collect its Medicaid lien on a personal injury award.

When you add a special needs trust to a financial aid calculation, things can get complicated because the regulations governing federal financial aid don't do a very good job of distinguishing special needs trusts from other types of trusts.

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...