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thcmac
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My mom died at a nursing home prior to filing for medical assitance.
My mother lived in Maryland and I live in West Virgina.
The nursing home now wants me to file for medical assistance as there is no money left in her estate after paying the funeral expenses. In the paper work that I signed as her power of attonery upon admitting her to the nursing home is a paragraph/section that reads as her agent I will apply for medical assistance when funds are gone. The agreement is terminated upon her death with them but now the nursing home wants their money for her debt. She was there less then 30 days (28 days) in the nursing section, prior to December she was in skilled care and her secondary insurance and medicare paid the expenses.
I have never heard of applying for someone dead. This is a crazy world.
1. I had to send back her german pension as it is sent one month in advance.
2. Her SS payment is intended for the month past and our government want let you keep the payment is they die before the end of the month. The payment isn't prorated.
3. And now the nursing home wants me to file for assistance for a dead person.
As personal representative of her estate am I liable for the agreement at the nursing home? I only signed her papers as power of attorney not that I was responsible for her bill.
Monica
My mother lived in Maryland and I live in West Virgina.
The nursing home now wants me to file for medical assistance as there is no money left in her estate after paying the funeral expenses. In the paper work that I signed as her power of attonery upon admitting her to the nursing home is a paragraph/section that reads as her agent I will apply for medical assistance when funds are gone. The agreement is terminated upon her death with them but now the nursing home wants their money for her debt. She was there less then 30 days (28 days) in the nursing section, prior to December she was in skilled care and her secondary insurance and medicare paid the expenses.
I have never heard of applying for someone dead. This is a crazy world.
1. I had to send back her german pension as it is sent one month in advance.
2. Her SS payment is intended for the month past and our government want let you keep the payment is they die before the end of the month. The payment isn't prorated.
3. And now the nursing home wants me to file for assistance for a dead person.
As personal representative of her estate am I liable for the agreement at the nursing home? I only signed her papers as power of attorney not that I was responsible for her bill.
Monica