To Gift or Not to Gift

Elder Law Today Podcast by Yale Hauptman

Aug 3, 2009Health

Joe calls me because he wants to understand how Medicaid works. I start to explain how you have to spend down your assets before you can qualify for benefits. That the spend down has to be for value, meaning that you are...

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