Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act

Sponsor: Glenn Thompson (R-PA)

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 9, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to the treatment of revocable trusts for the benefit of an individual for purposes of meeting income requirements for Medicaid coverage. The bill extends the supplemental needs trust exemption from treatment of a trust as resources available to the individual to supplemental needs trusts for Medicaid beneficiaries established by those beneficiaries.

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