Avoid Nursing Home Poverty And Spend Down - Jane's Story
Avoid Nursing Home Poverty & Spend Down - Jane's Story
The story below has been changed in order to protect the client's confidentiality, while retaining the truth of the details. While the Family & Aging Law Center cannot guarantee results, we can say that the results below are typical for our office.
Video Transcript:
Hi everybody, Attorney Nicole Wipp here with the Family & Aging Law Center.
So, today, I'd love to share with you a story about our client, Jane (*not her real name!). Jane, like so many of our clients, needed nursing home level care. Yet, her family was so scared - because they did not know what to do, just like so many people don't know what to do. They had been being told, "you HAVE to do a spend down, you have to spend down her money to $2,000 before she can receive benefits for care...she can't have two houses (which is what she had). She can only have one house! You've gotta sell one!" All of these things were being told to the...