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Medicaid Spousal Impoverishment Figures for 2012 Release

After remaining flat for two years, the community spouse resource allowances (CSRA) and the maximum monthly maintenance needs allowance will rise in 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. The Medicaid home equity limits will go up as well.

The new minimum CSRA is $22,728 and the new maximum is $113,460. The new maximum monthly maintenance needs allowance is $2,841. The minimum monthly maintenance needs allowance remains $1,838.75 until July 1, 2012.

In addition, the minimum and maximum home equity limits used by Medicaid will increase to $525,000 and $786,000, respectively.

The new figures are effective January 1, 2012 and reflect an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPU) of 3.7 percent from September 2010 to September 2011.


CzepigaDalyDillman is a Central Connecticut law firm with offices in Newington and Wethersfield. We concentrate our practice on Elder Law, Estate Planning, and Estate Administration and we also assist our clients with Corporate and Real Estate law. This concentration allows us to focus or energies and talents on our client's individual needs and well being, ensuring that we tailor or advice to our client's unique concerns. We do not take a "one size fits all" approach to our advice and realize that each of our clients has concerns that differ from those that their friends, relatives, or neighbors might have. We take a "hands on" approach and provide a personal touch--you are not "handed off" to a staff person. We care for our clients as we would for our own family members.

Whether the need is for a Durable Power of Attorney, Last Will and Testament, Living Will, Health Care Directive, Trust or Medicaid or Asset Protection Plan, we will provide a solution in a manner that you understand, that suits your needs, and is up to date. We can help to save money even for our clients who are in a nursing home. Our feeling is that it is never too late to help a client and that we can always do something to enhance their personal lives or to save them money on taxes or nursing home costs.

We also have a former nursing home administrator on staff and a geriatric care manager as well so we can help our clients and their families with putting into place an appropriate care plan whether the necessary care is at home, at an assisted living facility, or at a nursing home.

Our estate planning practice includes drafting documents that meet your unique needs, such as dealing with a family vacation home, a closely held business, a special needs child or disabled beneficiary. We build into our Wills and Trusts provisions to avoid or reduce estate and inheritance taxes and use Living Trusts (also known as revocable trusts) to avoid the probate court process. We draft special needs trusts and supplemental needs trusts for beneficiaries who cannot or should not manage their own.

For those clients who need our estate administration services, we assist them with navigating or avoiding the probate court process and with filing estate, inheritance, and income tax returns. Our estate administration practice ensures that tax and probate filings are timely made and that our clients take full advantage of all available strategies to reduce the cost and expense of probate and inheritance and estate taxes. We will appear in Court on our client's behalf on contested matters such as Will contests and Involuntary Conservatorships and will litigate any disputes in Court as appropriate.

Speaking Engagements

"Living Trusts and Probate"
Canton Public Library
September 21, 2011
By: Brendan F. Daly

"How Can You Protect Your Assets from the Cost of Long Term Care"
Canton Public Library
October 19, 2011
By: Brendan F. Daly

"What Not To Do In Estate Planning"
Tax 360 Conference
November 9, 2011
By: Paul T. Czepiga

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