Final Friday Update: September 2019

Recorded: September 27, 2019
Presented by Jill Roamer, J.D., ElderCounsel, LLC
Duration: 30 minutes

Watch ElderCounsel’s 30-minute review of important news updates in the areas of Medicaid planning, special needs planning and veterans pension planning from across the country.

Agenda: 

1. State wrongly denied benefits over non-existent paperwork
2. Those who received estate assets were liable to state for lien
3. Elder law attorney disbarred
4. DOT releases service dog guidance
5. State updates
   1. Florida – drug importation proposal
   2. Arizona – plans to propose Medicaid work requirements
   3. Tennessee – block grant waiver
   4. Idaho – expansion waiver denied
   5. Georgia – Wal-Mart opens first health center
   6. Pennsylvania – tries Medicaid work requirements again
   7. New Jersey – new attorney ethics opinion
6. Stop the Wait Act
7. FAIR Act
8. Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act
9. New tax form for seniors
10. How hearing loss effect seniors
11. Feel Good Friday
    1. Mentorship for autistic arts
    2. World’s oldest mom