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ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) accounts give people with special needs the opportunity to manage a modest bank account without penalty against their eligibility for SSI, Medicaid, or other government benefits. Generally speaking, SSI and Medicaid recipients must adhere to income and asset limitations.  However, money contributed to an ABLE account is generally disregarded […]

Many trust beneficiaries ask if their Special Needs Trust can pay for rent. The answer is maybe.  Not too helpful, right?  But really it all depends on the benefits you are receiving.  (See our blog on the “Basics of Benefits.”)  The Social Security Administration (SSA) has issued a list of ten expenses referred to as “shelter”