{"id":211475,"date":"2022-02-11T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-want-to-protect-my-house-from-medicaid-estate-recovery-what-should-i-do"},"modified":"2022-02-11T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:13:00","slug":"i-want-to-protect-my-house-from-medicaid-estate-recovery-what-should-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-want-to-protect-my-house-from-medicaid-estate-recovery-what-should-i-do","title":{"rendered":"I want to protect my house from Medicaid estate recovery &#8212; what should I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Harry, My current house, soon to go on the market, is in my &#8220;Living Trust&#8221; (established 2006), and I&#8217;d planned to put my upcoming new home in my Living Trust as well. I live in California, and am moving to Oregon. Would my Living Trust protect my new home from Medicaid estate recovery upon my death? Dear reader, Perhaps in some states, but not in Oregon. Medicaid is the payer of last resort for long-term care services. To qualify, you must spend down your assets, but may keep your home within certain limits on its value. However, the federal Medicaid rules require the states to seek recovery for their expenses from the estates of deceased beneficiaries. Since for the most part the only assets Medicaid beneficiaries have are their homes, that&#8217;s what is usually subject to this claim. Unfortunately, in terms of providing a comprehensive answer to your question, each state has its own estate recovery rules. Some only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each state has its own rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,49],"class_list":["post-211475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-real-estate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}