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Lawmakers move to stop nursing homes from taking residents' stimulus checks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stimulus-checks-nursing-home-residents/
JUNE 10, 2020 / 3:03 PM / AP
Some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks — a cash grab lawmakers want to halt.
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) on Tuesday called on the Health and Human Services Department's inspector general's office to warn nursing homes and assisted living facilities that such practices are "improper and unlawful."
In the House, Democratic Representatives Richard Neal of Massachusetts and Frank Pallone of New Jersey asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to spell out to nursing homes that the relief money from Congress is not considered income that facilities can legally claim.
Low-income Medicaid recipients must not be "coerced into wrongly handing over their checks for fear of being kicked out of their homes," wrote Neal and Pallone. Any funds taken must be returned and not held to defray residents' expenses.
Some nursing homes were claiming that if a resident was on Medicaid, the facility would get to keep the $1,200 stimulus payment.
Generally, a Medicaid recipient's taxable income is taken into account in determining their eligibility for the program. Taxable income can be taken by a nursing home, according to congressional staff, while the resident can keep a small amount as a personal allowance.
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JUNE 10, 2020 / 3:03 PM / AP
Some nursing homes have demanded that low-income residents turn over their $1,200 economic stimulus checks — a cash grab lawmakers want to halt.
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) on Tuesday called on the Health and Human Services Department's inspector general's office to warn nursing homes and assisted living facilities that such practices are "improper and unlawful."
In the House, Democratic Representatives Richard Neal of Massachusetts and Frank Pallone of New Jersey asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to spell out to nursing homes that the relief money from Congress is not considered income that facilities can legally claim.
Low-income Medicaid recipients must not be "coerced into wrongly handing over their checks for fear of being kicked out of their homes," wrote Neal and Pallone. Any funds taken must be returned and not held to defray residents' expenses.
Some nursing homes were claiming that if a resident was on Medicaid, the facility would get to keep the $1,200 stimulus payment.
Generally, a Medicaid recipient's taxable income is taken into account in determining their eligibility for the program. Taxable income can be taken by a nursing home, according to congressional staff, while the resident can keep a small amount as a personal allowance.
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Nursing homes taking residents' stimulus checks during the pandemic. Says everything you need to know about how America is broken as fuck.
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