DHA Case No. MAP 196477 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals January 13, 2020) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF To be eligible for the MAPP program, the individual’s countable assets must be below $15,000. Assets titled solely in a spouse’s name do not count for MAPP. In this case, the Department disenrolled the petitioner, apparently counting […] Read more
3.2.7 Real property
DHA Case No. MGE 199939 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals April 19, 2021) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF Non-homestead real estate is countable unless it is listed for sale with a realtor. In this unusual case, the petitioner owned some land with a mobile home, but realtors refused to list it because of its condition […] Read more
DHA Case No. FCP 181279 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals January 22, 2018) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF The Medicaid Eligibility Handbook allows business property to be exempted—regardless of value or rate of return—if the individual is “actively involved in the business operation on a day-to-day basis.” In this case, the petitioner had a history of renting […] Read more
DHA Case No. MGE 198872 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals August 12, 2020) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF The Medicaid Eligibility Handbook allows business property to be exempted—regardless of value or rate of return—if the individual is “actively involved in the business operation on a day-to-day basis.” Rental property is not exempt unless the owner is in […] Read more
DHA Case No. MGE 208281 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals May 30, 2023) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF The Medicaid Eligibility Handbook contains two main ways to exempt “property essential to self-support.” The property is (1) exempt (regardless of value or rate of return) if used in a business in which the individual is actively […] Read more
DHA Case No. MGE 170367 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals March 2, 2016) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF This decision discussed two issues at some length. First, whether payments to the petitioner’s daughter were divestments; and second, whether the petitioner’s former home, now rented at fair market value, was countable. On the first issue, the […] Read more
DHA Case No. MGE 185074 (Wis. Div. Hearings and Appeals March 14, 2018) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF In this straightforward decision, the petitioner owned home property in Michigan but was admitted to a Wisconsin nursing home. Her Medicaid application was denied because the agency “did not receive timely verification of any circumstance that would exempt […] Read more