15-16 Elder Law Section Memos

Elder 1 - Oppose - Budget Spousal Refusal (PDF)
Elder 2 - Oppose - Budget Immediate Need (PDF)
Elder 3 - Oppose - Witnesses to a HCP (PDF)
Elder 4 - Comments re S.2007/A.3007 Part B (PDF)
Elder 5 - Comments re Immediate Needs for Personal Care Services (PDF)
Elder 6 - Comments re Clarification of Spousal Impoverishment Budgeting with Post-Eligibility Rules under the Affordable Care Act (PDF)
Elder 7 - Comments re Immediate Needs for Personal Care Services (PDF)
Elder 8 - Comments re General Information System Message (PDF)
Elder 9 - Comments re Social Services Law Section 366-c Being Violative of the Affordable Care Act (PDF)
Elder 10 - Comments re Treatment of Retirement Accounts and Annuities  in the Medicaid Application and Budgeting Process (PDF)
Elder 11 - Comments re Long Term Care Enrollment Delays (PDF)
Elder 12 - Support - Enactment of the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act (PDF)
Elder 13 - Oppose - Requiring Petitioners for Appointment of a Guardian to Identify Other Person who may be able to  Manage the Affairs of an Incapacitated Person (PDF)
Elder 14 - Comments re Immediate Need for Personal Care Services and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (PDF)
Elder 15 - Comments re Housing Programs and Special Needs Trusts (PDF)
Elder 16 - Oppose - Budget - Opposes the Elimination of Medicaid "Spousal Refusal" (PDF)
Elder 17 - Oppose - Budget - Opposes the Reduction of the Minimum Community Spouse Resource Allowance (CSRA) (PDF)
Elder 18 - Oppose - Budget - Opposes the Proposal to Require a Nursing Home Level of Care as a Condition of Managed Long Term Care Eligibility (PDF)
Elder 19 - Oppose - Budget - Opposes the Proposal to Reduce Benefits for Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB) who Depend on Medicaid to Ensure Affordable Access to Health Care (PDF)
Elder 20 - Opposes Enactment of Peter Falk's Law Relating to a Guardian's Duties upon the Death or Hospitalization of a Person Subject to an Article 81 Guardianship (PDF)
Elder 21 - Budget - Support of the Legislature's rejection of proposals to eliminate Spousal Refusal and reduce the CSRA (PDF)
Elder 23 - Support - H.R. 670/ S. 349 - Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2015 (PDF)
Elder 24 - Comments on Proposed Amendments to Part 36 of the Rules of the Chief Judge (PDF)