Currently, medicaid programs must seek recovery for the costs of nursing home services, home and community-based services, and certain related services if the recipient was 55 years or older when the services were provided. This targets the homes of middle class families should a home owner ever fall ill and need care in old age. A family that owns their own home, will not be able to pass their home down to their children if they ever need caregiver services because the government will put a lien on their home.
This is the only public welfare program that does this. Someone who is on welfare all their lives and never bought a home can receive the caregiver benefit without repercussions but someone who has worked all their lives and paid taxes , are punished if they ever need the service when they become to old to work. It punishes the middle class.
This needs to be repealed.