Legal Opinion
Strand v. Rasmussen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided July 17, 2002No. 01-0146PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CADY, Justice.
The primary issue we face in this appeal is whether an irrevocable trust created with funds received from the settlement of a malpractice action brought on behalf of a mentally retarded individual by his conservator-parents is properly included as an asset under Iowa Administrative Code rule 441-75.9(1) (1997) for the purpose of determining eligibility for state Medicaid benefits. The Department of Human Services (Department) found the trust was an available resource and the amount of the trust exceeded the' applicable resource limits proscribed by federal Medicaid law for…
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