Corrected version of PowerPoint used in Seminar conducted by NYLAG Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program on Nov. 6, 2019 and Nov. 15, 2019 (Corrected version 11/15/2019)

Answers to questions asked by participants in Webinar held on Nov. 6, 2019 sponsored by NYLAG Evelyn Frank program on using SNTs to protect Medicaid and SSI. See links to recorded webinar on http://www.wnylc.com/health/news/84/

NYC HRA Form to use any time notifying HRA of change or requesting a change in budgeting. Use for requesting Special Income Disregard for Housing, Spousal Impoverishment budgeting, Pooled Trust budgeting, etc. (5/14/2018)

Letter from NYSBA Elder Law section to Lisa Sbrana, Director of Eligibility and Marketplace Integration, dated 8/7/19, contesting 2 aspects of GIS 19 MA/04 - Clarification of Policy for Treatment of Income Placed in Medicaid Exception Trusts  (Feb. 4, 2019). First, letter explains why a Statutory Gift Rider should not be needed for establishing an SNT with a Power of Attorney. Second, letter critiques Attachment to the GIS, Form OHIP-0119 Explanation of the Effect of Trusts on Medicaid Eligibility. This is the Informational Notice required by Pooled Trust Notification Law enacted in 2017 that districts must include when notifying an individual of the option of using a pooled trust if they have a Medicaid spenddown. 

Letter from the NYS Dept. of Health instructing local Medicaid agencies about how to identify recipients who are EXEMPT from the proposed public charge changes, in order to counsel recipients who call to close their Medicaid cases out of fear of jeopardizing their immigration status. Letter also suggests referring callers to the NYS Office for New Americans at 1-800-566-7636

NYC HRA Form MAPDR-01
2019 NYS Income and Resource Standards and Federal Poverty Levels (FPL)
Dated 04-04-2019

Income and Resource levels for Medicaid and other public health programs in NYS for 2001 - 2018. Includes Medicare Savings Programs, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus, Spousal Impoverishment levels, MBI-WPD, etc.

Training provides framework for understanding the changes to Medicaid effective 2014, including: new categories, new income levels, new budgeting and new benefits.

NYC Medicaid office moved from 330 West 34th Street to 785 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11238 in May 2013. Contact numbers at that office listed in this document.

Comprehensive outline published by Selfhelp, covering the many strategies for obtaining Medicaid coverage in New York through the Excess Income Program. Updated 5/29/09.