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Answer Bar: Considering a Special Needs Trust
Contains material from Feb 2017 to Mar 2019
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Session 2: Maximizing Public Benefits - Make note of top tips for establishing and maintaining public benefits, especially SSI, Medicaid, Medicare Savings Programs, Disabled Adult Child; and an update on the latest and greatest recent changes in public benefits.
Session 3: Seven Timeless Principles of SNT Planning - While laws, regulations, and rules impacting public benefits and trusts change frequently, certain planning principles do not change. Learn steps in the SNT design process to address individual circumstances, including basic program types, budgets, grantor and beneficiary expectations, and distribution planning.
Session 4: Making Sense of Structured Settlements - Structured settlements are often used to fund court-created SNTs in the personal injury context. Drafting attorneys and trustees need an understanding of the fundamental concepts of a structured settlement annuity and the effects one will have on the funding and administration of a trust.
Session 5: Pooled Trusts: A Creative Solution for Thorny Problems - Situations come up where a traditional special needs trust isn’t the best option and Pooled Trusts can provide a beneficial alternative. Not sure if there is a trustee available? Too much for an ABLE account? No viable family members available to serve? Pooled Trusts can serve as a your solution! Learn about the creative solutions The Arc of Texas and other pooled trusts can provide.
Session 6: SSA Regional Trust Leads Presentation Regarding SSI Trusts - A discussion with the Regional Trust Leads on the regional centralization of the SSI trust review business process, including the effect of updated trust policy on trust reviews. In addition, hear about the types of trust cases that require second-level review, drafting errors, and statistics regarding the number of trust cases SSA processes.
Session 7: Working with SSA: Tips on How to Avoid the Appeal - Gain tips on how to submit your trust for review so that you can get it approved and avoid a need for an appeal.
Session 8: View from CMS - A discussion with a representative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of current issues related to the Medicare Secondary Payer provisions. What's new, what's not.
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Craig C. Reaves
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Session 1
—63 mins
Special Needs Trusts: Decision Tree Analysis (Feb 2017)
Learn how to utilize a decision tree approach to ask and answer key questions concerning a client's need for a special needs trust, and if one is needed, which type of special needs trust is the best choice.
Originally presented: Feb 2017 Special Needs Trusts
Craig C. Reaves,
Reaves Law Firm, P.C. - Kansas City, MO
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H. Clyde Farrell, Christina Lesher
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Session 2
—61 mins
Maximizing Public Benefits (Mar 2019)
Make note of top tips for establishing and maintaining public benefits, especially SSI, Medicaid, Medicare Savings Programs, Disabled Adult Child; and an update on the latest and greatest recent changes in public benefits.
Originally presented: Feb 2019 Special Needs Trusts
H. Clyde Farrell,
Farrell, Burdett & Johnson PLLC - Austin, TX
Christina Lesher,
The Law Office of Christina Lesher, PC - Houston, TX
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Renée C. Lovelace
Session 3
—45 mins
Seven Timeless Principles of SNT Planning (Feb 2018)
While laws, regulations, and rules impacting public benefits and trusts change frequently, certain planning principles do not change. Discuss steps in the SNT design process to address individual circumstances, including basic program types, budgets, grantor and beneficiary expectations, and distribution planning.
Originally presented: Feb 2018 Special Needs Trusts
Renée C. Lovelace,
The Lovelace Law Firm, P.C. - Austin, TX
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Elisa Dillard Rainey, Carola Davis
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Session 4
—43 mins
Making Sense of Structured Settlements (Feb 2018)
Structured settlements are often used to fund court-created SNTs in the personal injury context. Drafting attorneys and trustees need an understanding of the fundamental concepts of a structured settlement annuity and the effects one will have on the funding and administration of a trust.
Originally presented: Feb 2018 Special Needs Trusts
Elisa Dillard Rainey,
Rainey & Rainey, Attorneys at Law LP - Waco, TX
Carola Davis,
Davis Settlement Partners - New Braunfels, TX
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Haley D. Greer
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Session 5
—24 mins
Pooled Trusts: A Creative Solution for Thorny Problems (Mar 2019)
Situations come up where a traditional special needs trust isn’t the best option and Pooled Trusts can provide a beneficial alternative. Not sure if there is a trustee available? Too much for an ABLE account? No viable family members available to serve? Pooled Trusts can serve as a your solution! Learn about the creative solutions The Arc of Texas and other pooled trusts can provide.
Originally presented: Feb 2019 Special Needs Trusts
Haley D. Greer,
The Arc of Texas - Austin, TX
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Amanda Flood, Dana Marquez
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Session 6
—61 mins
SSA Regional Trust Leads Presentation Regarding SSI Trusts (Mar 2019)
A discussion with the Regional Trust Leads on the regional centralization of the SSI trust review business process, including the effect of updated trust policy on trust reviews. In addition, hear about the types of trust cases that require second-level review, drafting errors, and statistics regarding the number of trust cases SSA processes.
Originally presented: Feb 2019 Special Needs Trusts
Amanda Flood,
U.S. Social Security Administration - Dallas, TX
Dana Marquez,
U.S. Social Security Administration - Dallas, TX
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Pi-Yi Mayo
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Session 7
—43 mins
Working with SSA: Tips on How to Avoid the Appeal (Mar 2019)
Gain tips on how to submit your trust for review so that you can get it approved and avoid a need for an appeal.
Originally presented: Feb 2019 Special Needs Trusts
Pi-Yi Mayo,
Mayo & Poland PLLC - Baytown, TX
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Sally Stalcup
Session 8
—41 mins
View from CMS (Feb 2018)
A discussion with a representative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of current issues related to the Medicare Secondary Payer provisions. What's new, what's not.
Originally presented: Feb 2018 Special Needs Trusts
Sally Stalcup,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Dallas, TX