Make Sure Your Life Insurance Is Not Taxed at Your Death
Although your life insurance policy may pass to your heirs income tax-free, it can affect your estate tax. If you are the owner of the insurance policy, it will become a part of your taxable estate when you die. You should make sure your policy won’t have an impact on your estate’s tax liability.
Investigative Report Questions Five-Star Rating System for Nursing Homes
How reliable are the ratings given nursing homes under the five-star rating system that the federal government recently instituted? Not very, according to an investigative report by a Massachusetts magazine.
How Risky Is Buying a Limited-Duration Long-Term Care Insurance Policy?
More consumers are buying shorter-duration policies as a way to keep the cost of long-term care insurance affordable. For example, in 2009 almost one-third of individual buyers purchased a three-year benefit period policy, according to an industry trade group. But is that sufficient coverage or is the policyholder likely to run out of benefit dollars?
Getting Social Security While Living Overseas
Retirees who decide to move to another country are still entitled to Social Security benefits. Once a retiree has been outside the country for 30 days in a row, he or she is considered outside the United States and the rules for collecting benefits apply.
Novel idea: Using the Special Needs Trust in Divorce
Some readers may be familiar with the use of a Special Needs Trust to hold a personal injury settlement or an inheritance for a disabled person who is receiving public benefits, such as SSI or Medi-Cal. For these persons, the SNT permits them to retain both the private resource and their public benefits. However, few are aware that the SNT may also have a similar use in the context of divorce, where one of the parties or a minor child is disabled and eligible to receive public benefits. Our attorney has written an article on topic that may be of interest to you or persons whom you know with special needs. Click below to read more…
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