I am POA for a nursing home patient. Medicaid is paying for the NH. Do I have authority to spend his pension funds?

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Mamachick Asked December 2017

I am POA for a nursing home patient. Medicaid is paying for the NH. Do I have authority to spend his pension funds?

He has a checking account into which his pension checks are deposited. Do I have authority to spend his pension funds. He gifted me that money.

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Medicaid will not allow any gifting - could really mess him up.

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His pension checks are almost certainly going to need to go to his Share of Cost (soc) to the NH.

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Mamachick, any money the nursing home patient receives, while being on Medicaid, is suppose to go directly for that patient's care.

Sorry, I never heard of anyone gifting a pension fund.

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