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Question: How do I benefit from setting up a QIT or Qualified Income Trust for Florida Medicaid – and what is it? Answer: A Qualified Income Trust is commonly called a QIT or a Miller Trust.  It [...]

Question:    I am interested in doing Medicaid planning for potential future long term care costs, but I don’t know for sure that I’ll even need skilled nursing care or long term care.  Should I [...]

Question:  If I receive a federal income tax refund, could the income from the refund disqualify me for Medicaid? Answer:    No, the income you receive from a federal income tax refund, even if [...]

Coverage through the federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) ends December 31, 2013. PCIP will not pay for any medical services after December 31, 2013. You must enroll for new [...]

 Effective August 2013, the CARES department within the Department of Elder Affairs is no longer accepting referral calls to place a loved one on the long term care Medicaid programs for those at [...]

The Tampa Bay Times has published an article on September 25, 2013 providing a preview to the rates expected to be published on October 1, 2013 for health insurance under the affordable care act. [...]

Disabled Adult Child (DAC) is an adult child who has a disability that began before they became 22 years old.  What is the social security benefit for a Disabled Adult Child when a parent [...]

Thousands of caregivers in Sarasota and Charlotte counties are receiving letters this month from the state, telling them they have 30 days to enroll their loved ones in Florida’s new Medicaid [...]

Babette Bach will be the keynote speaker for a seminar March 20, 2013 at the Jewish Foundation in Sarasota. Topics will include estate planning and the basic recommended documents to have in [...]

A Florida Senate committee voted yesterday, March 11, 2013, against expanding Medicaid to roughly 1 million of the state’s poorest under the federal health overhaul and instead proposed a [...]