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LetitiaA Asked February 2018

Mom received Massachusetts benefit for in-home care. Will state try to recoup cost?

During the last perhaps 3-4 years my mother received 7 hours/week of in-home care for dementia and we paid approximately $63/week. This benefit is based on income, not assets (which she didn't have much of anyway), and her co-pay was based on a sliding scale. She also fortunately had a long-term care insurance policy that was able to pay for another 8 hours/week. We did not apply for medicaid or Mass Health as she would not have qualified except under a frail elder waiver and I wanted to ensure that the house remain unencumbered. I worked pretty hard to keep her out of a nursing home, off medicaid, and in her home until she passed away recently. So although she wasn't on medicaid does anyone think that there could be a chance of a MERP review?

LetitiaA Feb 2018
She received the benefit through her local Aging Service Access Point (ASAP) for the Massachusetts Home Care Assistance Program (HCAP). If anyone else has had experience with this and then settling an estate I would be interested to hear. I think needtowashhair may be correct but just want to be sure there is no surprise if we needed to do a probate (it's unlikely but not out of the question).

needtowashhair Feb 2018
I have no idea but how can their be a MERP review if she wasn't on medicaid? MERP is medicaid recovery. If she wasn't on medicaid, there's nothing to recover.

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