Complying with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act When a Client has Public Benefits
For clients with public benefits, closing out their case is not as simple as issuing a check for their net recovery.
Tag: Public Benefit Preservation
ABLE Accounts: Helping Clients on Public Benefits Make the Most of their Recovery
October 8, 2020 ABLE accounts, named for the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act, have been around since 2014 but remain underutilized across the country despite offering a way for people with disabilities and public benefits to save money without jeopardizing their public benefits eligibility. [1] The reasons why are likely a combination of the […]
Public Benefits Preservation: What Your Client Doesn’t Know will Hurt Them, and You!
April 9, 2020 By: Evelynn Passino One of the many practice points rarely taught in law school: your client may lose public benefits as a result of a recovery, and you have a duty, as their attorney, to discuss benefit preservation with them. That does not mean you have a duty to actually preserve their […]