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Medicaid question for the board experts

Deepfork

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My Grandmother is in a nursing home and she is set up with a life estate. In that is mineral rights to to a small acreage that a couple companies are trying to lease for 3 years for $6500. My parents are concerned that if she gets more than $2,000 it will knock her off Medicaid that helps pay for the nursing home. Is there a way around this?
 
Good question Deepfork. My understanding is that Medicaid will take anything above $2000 in the bank account and you can not gift to keep it at that amount.
 
Have her attorney file a seperation on the minerals and then sell them to the kids for x amount.
 
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