Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Iowa

If you are on medicare and medicaid because of disability and cannot afford a supplement insurance

at my age of 56 and you have a will made out that your house was to be sold and split between all

5 chidren can the state come in and take that money away from the children for the money they spent on me while i was alive? Or should I put the house in one of their names now?


Asked on 11/10/10, 7:29 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Robert Luedeman solo practitioner

Medicare/medicaid has a five year lookback period. If there are any transfers in that time the government gets paid first.

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Answered on 11/15/10, 7:37 am


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