FSGA presentation on Social Security, SNT, and Medicare Changes
The organizers of the Florida State Guardianship Annual Convention asked me to prepare some comments on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - It Just Keeps Changing. The ten page paper highlights changes in how attorneys and guardians of disabled individuals will have to change the way they interact with SSA, video hearings, "paperless" medical and legal files at SSA, as well as the 2008 changes in Medicare, and changes we are expecting in the SSI POMS that relate to Special Needs Trust administration: new rules on employment by the trustee of parents to care for minor disabled children, support of dependent spouses and minor children using the disabled parent's trust funds (see our previous post on July 11th), and structured settlement annuity problems, particularly with deeming of healthy parents' annuities against the disabled child's continued eligibility for SSI and Medicaid.
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I will be presenting at both the Basics and the Advanced sessions of the Stetson College of Law Program on Special Needs Trusts. This is the 10th Annual program, and has become "the" national program for basic and advanced continuing legal education on Special Needs Trusts. If you are a professional in the field, either an attorney who drafts Special Needs Trusts, or a Trust Officer who administers them, this is the best program to attend to stay abreast of developments in SNT law. Here's the 
The first week of July, we will be presenting a "webinar" (an Internet Seminar) for members of the Academy of Special Needs Planners on the 