County Medicaid Agency Backs Off – Small Business Saved
Recently, a senior client who had a very small business that he ran by himself came to see me in a panic. He was just making ends meet. His spouse had been on Medicaid in a nursing home for several years, but the county board of social services was now questioning the nature of the business and whether it was a countable resource that should have been spent down. They were going to...
Approved for SS Disability? Keep documenting your condition.
Back in the mid-1980’s, Congress enacted the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act, and the Social Security Administration (SSA) adopted a Medical Improvement Review Standard (MIRS) to provide a method to evaluate whether a person’s disability had improved to the point that the person is capable once again of engaging in substantial gainful activity (work). Congress...