Medicaid Trusts: What They Are, Why People Use Them, and the Parts That Get Left Out
| in Financial Planning, Investment PlanningIf you’ve spent any time around retirement conversations, caregiving discussions, or estate planning chatter, you’ve almost certainly heard some version of this sentence: “We’ll just put everything in a trust so Medicaid pays for the nursing home.” It sounds clean. It sounds decisive. And unfortunately, it’s usually missing about half the story.