This database is currently sponsored by the Wisconsin chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Elder Law & Special Needs Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and Krause Financial. I thank them for their support!
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- Searches the full text of all decisions on this site
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- Currently covers all decisions from 2020 to date, plus select decisions going back to 2000; I am continually adding more (467 decisions published as of 09/16/25)
- Only decisions relevant or useful to elder law attorneys are included
- Have a decision that should be published? Email it to ben@bswright.com (or click here to upload as many decisions as you want in one go)
Introduction: How to Research and Use Fair Hearing Decisions
Recently Published
- MDV 67/105685 (2009) Divestment penalty does not start until “otherwise eligible”
- MDV 28/100729 (03/09/2009) Divestment of homestead cured by return of title, assumption of mortgage
- MDV 66/71952 (01/25/2006) Payments for nursing home care cured divestment
- MDV 149517 (07/26/2013) Spreadsheet insufficient for verification; income presumed spent on living expenses
- MDV 147776 (07/12/2013) No time limit for verification needed to start divestment penalty
- MDV 146016 (03/05/2013) Community Waivers divestment penalty started without functional screen
- FCP 140118 (07/13/2012) $100k spent gambling was divestment due to no verification
- MDV 138459 (04/24/2012) Unexplained bank withdrawals were divestments
- MDV 130600 (05/23/2011) Pattern of gifts over 15% of income were divestments
- MDV 55/83139 (05/09/2007) Land intended for future home was not exempt homestead
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Decisions by Issue
Note: This outline is loosely based on the Medicaid Eligibility Handbook and will be tweaked as this database matures. For now, many entries will have no related fair hearing decisions.
1 / Applications and Renewals +
2 / Nonfinancial Eligibility +
3.4 / Spousal impoverishment +