Fern Finkel named chair of NYSBA’s Elder Law and Special Needs Section
Watch Presentation “Aging in the Community: How to Plan Ahead”
New Power of Attorney of Law Will go into effect on June 13, 2021. Here’s how the law changes the existing Power of Attorney document.
The amendment, which will go into effect on June 13, 2021, will change the existing rules in an attempt to simplify the form, which had become unwieldy and confusing to attorneys, banks and agents alike.
Preparing Your Planning Documents During the Pandemic
New York State Budget enacted by Governor Cuomo on April 3, 2020 will have a severe impact on Medicaid eligibility rules and requirements. Significantly, the implementation of the rules has been pushed forward from its prior designated start date of October 1, 2020 to April 1, 2021.
Preparing Your Planning Documents During the Pandemic
New York State Budget enacted by Governor Cuomo on April 3, 2020 will have a severe impact on Medicaid eligibility rules and requirements. Significantly, the implementation of the rules has been pushed forward from its prior designated start date of October 1, 2020 to April 1, 2021.
Critical Changes to Medicaid Home Care Eligibility
Given the Secure Act provisions, the Internal Revenue Service has suspended the Required Minimum Distributions on qualified retirement accounts for 2020. However, Medicaid in New York State exempts qualified retirement accounts in payout status from their eligibility determination.
Fern Finkel mentioned in The New Yorker’s Season’s Greetings from Ian Frazier
The New Yorker staff writer reads a poem written for the holiday season.
Preparing Your Planning Documents During the Pandemic
As many of you are aware, the 2020-2021 (Fiscal Year 2021) New York State Budget enacted by Governor Cuomo on April 3, 2020 will have a severe impact on Medicaid eligibility rules and requirements.
Critical Changes to Medicaid Home Care Eligibility
Medicaid Changes Appear to be Scheduled to Take Effect on April 1, 2021: For New York State to maintain eligibility for federal relief under the March 18, 2020 “Families First Coronavirus Response Act”, which may provide more than $6 billion in additional federal health care funds to New York, the current New York Medicaid eligibility standards and procedures must not be made more restrictive than those in effect on January 1, 2020.
Watch Presentation “Financial Advance Directives” by Fern Finkel for the Brooklyn Bar Association, Access to Justice Task Force
