Under federal and state Medicaid law, German reparations payments for Holocaust survivors are exempted from being counted as either “income” or a “resource.”
By being exempt, these payments (1) are not counted when determining if a person is income-eligible for a particular program; (2) are not included in the income that must be turned over to the facility by the Medicaid recipient each month; and (3) are not counted towards the resource limits, which are $2,000 for the applicant/ recipient and no more than $117,240 for their community spouse.
Linda S. Ershow-Levenberg, Esq., CELA
Fink Rosner Ershow-Levenberg, LLC
Clark, New Jersey
Are German Reparation Payments for Holocaust Survivors Medicaid Exempt? was last modified: April 30th, 2018 by