MassHealth/Medicaid gets even more aggressive in seizing seniors' assets

MassHealth is now asserting that assets given to properly and legally established irrevocable trusts are still a senior's assets even though they haven't owned them for years in order to deny him or her nursing home benefits.  (It's as if they disqualified you because you have a vacation cabin in Maine even though you gave it to your daughter or cousin twenty years ago.)  Will nothing stop them in their drive to reduce the elderly to abject poverty?  Why are we the only advanced country in the world to do this? The answer is this: the system is broke and officials are under the gun to cut costs.

Here is an analysis of a disturbing recent case by Sarah Foster of Margolis & Bloom. (Click on image to read.)