Blog Category: Special Needs Pooled Trusts

I/DD Innovation with Special Needs Pooled Trust’s Endowment Feature: Threshold Residential Services

Like most I/DD providers, Threshold Residential Services’ goal is to enhance the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families by offering individual-specific...

July 17, 2023

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Don’t Spend Down To Save Benefits

We see the spend-down strategy happen again and again. As end of month approaches, providers inevitably find consumers with funds over their resource limit...

June 8, 2023

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Use An Exempt Resource To Save Consumer Funds & Staff Time

We know the importance you place on choosing services that best support your consumers and community. Over one hundred human service providers nationwide have...

March 31, 2023

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Don’t Let Your Consumers’ Medicaid Fall Thru The Cracks

The original unwinding of Medicaid benefits coincided to end with the Public Health Emergency (PHE). However, in late December, the omnibus spending bill, the...

January 11, 2023

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Supplemental Security Income Recipients Likely To See Largest Increase In Decades

For 2023, the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA will bring a predicted increase for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, which are expected...

September 20, 2022

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Save Stimulus Money

There are two questions I/DD providers need to be asking right now about this topic: 1) Do our consumers have stimulus money? 2) What...

April 5, 2022

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The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Is Ending – What This Means For I/DD Providers and Consumers Receiving Medicaid

***10/13/22 UPDATE: The Public Health Emergency (PHE) was extended. The new deadline is now 1/11/23.*** ***7/15/22 UPDATE: The Public Health Emergency (PHE) was extended. ...

March 21, 2022

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What’s So Special About Special Needs Pooled Trusts and ABLE Accounts?

We all know it can be a struggle to manage a consumer’s finances and maintain means-tested benefits. Monthly systems need to be built and...

April 5, 2021

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Do Not Needlessly Spend Down Consumers’ Stimulus Money

Consumers received their first stimulus check for $1,200 in April 2020 and were given 12-months before the money was counted as a resource. That...

March 1, 2021

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Can I/DD Transportation Challenges Be Resolved With Individual Car Ownership?

Independence is a major goal for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). To support independent living, access to public and private transportation is...

November 20, 2019

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