Julie Martin Elder & Special Needs Law PLLC

92% of Medicaid adult enrollees are working, or are not working due to caregiving, an illness or disability, or school attendance.

Work requirements are a solution in search of a problem.

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If you get divorced, be sure your ex's name gets removed from all assets decreed to you in the divorce. Correcting asset titling after you die can be challenging, expensive, and sometimes downright impossible. If you don't want your estate to have to fight your ex when you die, get it done now.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

A per capita cap on Medicaid significantly impacts people in nursing homes by reducing benefits, decreasing quality of care, & access to nursing home services, as states are forced to cut costs due to fixed amount of funding per Medicaid recipient, especially impacting those w/high healthcare needs.

The disability community really needs help to stop the massive cuts to Medicaid that are being proposed. Especially if you or a loved one rely on Medicaid services-write or call your representatives and tell them your story.

Block grants leave qualified people without benefits until someone else loses theirs (i.e. wait lists). A recent AZ example: www.azfamily.com/2024/08/02/w.... Per capita caps lead to benefits cuts, cost sharing increases, and provider reimbursement cuts (leading to fewer providers to participate).

Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.

If you're the primary caregiver for your loved one who has special needs, planning for their future care in the event that you are deceased or incapacitated is critical. Who will provide care when you can't? Where will your loved one live? How will care be paid for? We can help you decide.

Public benefits planning can help you obtain and protect needs-based public benefits. Every public benefits program has different rules, so it's critical to talk to an attorney who understands how your actions and estate plan may impact public benefits eligibility and cost sharing.

Estate planning is especially important if you and your life partner aren't legally married. If you want your partner to inherit your assets that don't have a right of survivorship or beneficiary designation, you will need to include your partner in your last will and testament.

Here's how to cover things that are illegal:

(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not

Truth sandwich, extra mustard

If you're 18 or older and have legal capacity, you should have financial and medical powers of attorney at a minimum. If you don't and you lose capacity, even temporarily, your loved ones may have to spend thousands of dollars on guardianship and/or conservatorship proceedings in court.