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A Nursing Home Is Trying To Make Me Pay For Someone’s Care
This information guide can help you understand your rights when a nursing home or a skilled nursing facility (SNF) is trying to make you pay for a relative's debt.
SNAP's Medical Deductions: How To Get Increased Benefits For High Medical Expenses
If you have high medical expenses,you could get more help from SNAP. SNAP’s Medical Deductions can help increase your benefit.
Reverse Mortgages
This information is about reverse mortgages. These are a special type of home loan only for homeowners who are 62 and older. Reverse mortgage loans generally must be repaid when you sell or no longer live in the home. Learn more about reverse mortgages and other issues related to reverse mortgages.
Elder Abuse And Elderly Protective Services
FAQs from the Louisiana Elder Law Task Force and links to information from the Louisiana Department of Health relating to Elder Abuse and Elderly Protective Services.
Public Benefits And Effects On Inheritances In Successions
Many individuals who live with a disability or receive help from governmental programs. This may include Medicaid and Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI). This goes over information about inheritances that a beneficiary might get as a large sum. This resource goes over access to governmental programs the beneficiary received after an inheritance.
Eviction Dictionary
A plain-language guide to understanding words used in eviction cases. Click on the terms to see the definitions and find links to in-depth articles explaining more complicated issues.
A Guide to Interdiction
Interdiction is a legal process where a court is asked to determine, from testimony and other evidence presented, whether a person is unable to consistently make reasoned decisions regarding their person and/or their property, or to communicate those decisions, and whose interests cannot be protected by less restrictive means. If such a finding is made, the court appoints someone to make these decisions for the person.
About Public Benefits
This information covers public benefits, which are government-funded programs that help individuals and families in need. Public benefits can include cash and income assistance, health care, food assistance, housing assistance, and tax benefits. Depending on the program, eligibility for public benefits may require a person or family to meet certain income and resource requirements.
Medicare Health Coverage
This resource covers information about the Medicare health insurance program run by the government that covers people 65 and over, some people with disability status, and some people with end-stage renal or ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease. This information covers who is eligible for Medicare coverage, how to apply for it, dealing with payment issues, what is covered by it, the different Parts A, B, C, and D, and how one's enrollment might be terminated.