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- From: eddc@opus.lerc.nasa.gov (Dave Carek)
- Subject: Medicade and gifts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.000651.22778@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:06:51 GMT
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- Not sure this is the proper group for this but .....
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- Say an elder has a home which was appraised at $50,000 and sells it to
- a grandchild for $30,000. The money from the sale of the home and an
- additional $10,000 in the elder's savings will provide funds to pay for
- the elder's nursing home care for about another year. After this money
- is spent, the elder should be eligable for Medicade benefits (or maybe
- not). Will Medicade consider the difference between the appraised
- price and the sale price to be a gift? If so, this brings a few
- questions to mind:
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- How far can the Medicade folks go back to try to reclaim gift money?
- Would the new home owner be responsible for paying the difference?
- How would Medicade determine the home's value if an appraisal was never done?
- Could the County property tax appraisal be used as the value of the home?
- Could the sale price of the home be reduced by the amount of
- real-estate commission (since that cost would be avoided)?
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- | David Carek | NASA Lewis Research Center |
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