Special Needs Answers
What Is a Special Needs Trust?
A special needs trust can allow individuals?with special needs?to preserve?assets that will?enhance their?quality of life...
Read moreWhat is a Special Needs Trust?
- May 4th, 2016
Q
What is a special needs trust?
A
A special needs trust is a type of trust designed to provide a person with a disability with assets to enhance his or her quality of life while at the same time allowing that person to remain eligible for needs-based public benefits. The two primary types of public benefit programs that are protected by use of a special needs trust are Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid.