(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2013) For disabled adults receiving Social Security income, Nancy Klossner of the Resource Center for Independent Living and Brian Barnard, a disability rights advocate, will explain at Oneida Public Library\u00a0Wednesday June 5 at\u00a011 a.m.\u00a0how a \u201cpooled\u201d trust can legally \u201cspend down\u201d their income on necessities so they can qualify for Medicaid.<\/p>\n
Disabled people who depend on Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) or Social Security Income (SSI) for their livelihood typically receive monthly payments that are insufficient for the purchase of healthcare insurance but in excess of the maximum income for qualifying for Medicaid. For example, a person receiving $1,500 a month in SSDI to cover living expenses would be some $700 over the maximum monthly income for Medicaid eligibility in New York State. As a consequence, many disabled people are forced to live without any healthcare coverage.<\/p>\n
Klossner will present the Community Supplemental Needs \u201cPooled\u201d Trust as a legal method to \u201cspend down\u201d Social Security income so a disabled person qualifies for Medicaid even as the Trust uses the \u201cexcess\u201d income to pay the person\u2019s bills.<\/p>\n
According to Klossner, a \u201cpooled\u201d trust can pay for \u201canything that enhances the person\u2019s quality of life without impacting Medicaid or public benefits,\u201d such as rent, utilities, clothing, food, or even a vacation.<\/p>\n
Many trusts for the disabled operate in New York State, but in her presentation Klossner will focus on one with reasonable fees that operates out of Utica and Rome.<\/p>\n
The presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2013) For disabled adults receiving Social Security income, Nancy Klossner of the Resource Center for Independent Living and Brian Barnard, a disability rights advocate, will explain at Oneida Public Library\u00a0Wednesday June 5 at\u00a011 a.m.\u00a0how a \u201cpooled\u201d trust can legally \u201cspend down\u201d their income on necessities so they can qualify for Medicaid. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-c9d","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}