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I earn about $3500 yearly-limited income. Any help, please? I intend to sell our home and go into an assisted living place.

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Well before a need for Medicaid, once you sell your home, see an elder lawyer about setting up a Miller Trust. Your income is over the qualifying limit, but you can take precautions now. It might cost around $8000, but you will most likely invest from the sale and make some interest.
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Whose income is/was $3500 yearly? Yours or his? Is this SS income only? For the entire year? What's your monthly now?
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What exactly are you looking for help with at this present time, Pat?
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Limited income for what?

So you receive your SS and his was dropped? Assisted living is usually private pay. Are you planning on applying for Medicaid eventually. In my State you have to be paying privately for at least 2 yrs and the facility has to except Medicaid. They also cannot have reached the % they allow for Medicaid residents.

Medicaid does have an income limit. If your income is over that limit, then you need to see if your State excepts a Miller or Qualifying Income Trust. Excess money will go there. When you pass, it reverts to Medicaid.
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mommabeans Mar 22, 2025
Medicaid DOES have an income limit. HOWEVER, they do take into consideration how much is LEFT after the expenses for just having a room in Assisted Living, as "spend down." Even before getting Medicaid there has to be a "spend down" before you can apply. You have to need it, and not have assets that could be used to pay for the healthcare aspect of AL.
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