Applying for Medicaid benefits, particularly long-term care benefits, can be difficult and confusing. Yet, it is a necessary evil for many who rely on Medicaid to ensure that they can afford the room, ...

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. Medicaid, the public ...

Medicaid’s look-back period is a way to ensure applicants haven’t recently given away or sold assets that could have been used to pay for long-term care. The period applies only to Medicaid for ...