Legal Opinion
Burinskas v. Department of Social Services
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided March 18, 1997No. 15440PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
NORCOTT, J.
Under medicaid eligibility law, the resources of an institutionalized applicant may be allocated to a spouse under circumstances in which the spouse needs income “due to exceptional circumstances resulting in significant financial duress . . . .” 42 U.S.C. § 1396r-5 (e) (2) (B). The principal issue in this administrative appeal is whether the defendant, the department of social services (department), properly applied the “exceptional circumstances” standard in *143refusing to allocate resources to the spouse of an institutionalized applicant. The plaintiff Mary Burinskas applied…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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