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Many of my Medicaid clients are married couples, where one spouse will be in the nursing home (called the “institutionalized spouse”) and one spouse, healthier, and living at home (called the “community spouse”).<\/p>\nMany of my Medicaid clients are married couples, where one spouse will be in the nursing home (called the “institutionalized spouse”) and one spouse, healthier, and living at home (called the “community spouse”).<\/p>\n
When applying for Michigan Nursing Home Medicaid<\/a> for a married couple, special planning needs to be done to protect the assets from nursing home or Medicaid spend down so that the community spouse is not completely impoverished.<\/p>\n Our elder law office with locations in Brighton, Bloomfield Hills, Livonia and Novi regularly protects almost all the assets for that community spouse and gets the spouse in the nursing qualified for Medicaid, \u00a0even if the family has $100k, $250k or more in assets.<\/p>\n But that’s just the first step of getting Medicaid qualified.<\/p>\n In Michigan, when one spouse is in a nursing home and applying for Medicaid, (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of my Medicaid clients are married couples, where one spouse will be in the nursing home (called the “institutionalized spouse”) and one spouse, healthier, and living at home (called the “community spouse”). When applying for Michigan Nursing Home Medicaid…<\/span><\/p>\nMichigan Medicaid Asset Protection for Married Couples<\/h1>\n
What happens if the community spouse, the “healthy” one, passes away first?<\/h1>\n