Special Needs Planning: Ensuring a Smooth Transition
Planning for the future can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. By taking the time carefully to plan now, you can ensure a smooth transition later.
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17, 2024
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17, 2024
When A Self-Settled Special Needs Trust May Not Be the Best Option: Thinking Outside of the Box
This issue of The Voice® is written by SNA member Thomas Begley, CELA of Begley Law Group in Moorestown, New Jersey. His firm specializes in special needs planning, special needs trusts, guardianship, and estate planning. When a personal injury settlement is received, the first reaction for many people is, “Let’s use the money to fund [...]
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18, 2024
Preparing for Tomorrow: What Parents of Adult Children with Special Needs Need to Know
For parents of children with special needs, growing older doesn’t just mean preparing for your retirement and worrying about creaky joints. Ensuring your adult child's future health, happiness, and financial well-being requires preparation, too.
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16, 2024
Sexual Expression, Health, and Relationships of Persons with Disabilities
This issue of The Voice® was written by SNA member Kristen M. Lewis and her colleague Emma H. Barry, both of Harrison, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. Their firm focuses on special needs, estate and trust administration, guardianship and conservatorship and estate planning. People with disabilities were created as sexual beings, just like people without disabilities. [...]
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15, 2024
What’s So Great About Supplement Security Income & Medicare for Adults with Special Needs
This article is provided by SNA member Elizabeth Gray, CELA or McCandlish & Lillard in Fairfax, VA. Elizabeth focuses her practice on elder law and special needs law; trust, estate and guardianship disputes; and, wills, trusts and estates. This is an overview of the fundamentals of public benefits law, particularly focusing on Social Security’s need-based [...]
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30, 2024
Past SNA Advocacy Activities
2024-09-30T17:21:06-04:00SNA Supports Omitting Food from Social Security In-Kind Support and Maintenance Calculations Read the April 17, 2023 letter from SNA and the Alliance of Pooled Trusts supporting the SSA's proposal to omit food from in-kind and support maintenance (ISM) calculations. READ MORE SNA Special Needs Trust Improvement Act Becomes Law [...]
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20, 2024
Brooke Ellison. A Life with Purpose and Resilience
2024-11-14T08:40:40-05:00This article is provided by SNA member Elena Lidrbauch, CELA with Hickman Lowder Lidrbauch & Welch Co., L.P.A. in Sheffield Village, Ohio. Elena focuses her career on issues affecting older persons and individuals with disabilities. Her practice includes Medicaid planning, planning for families with special needs, estate planning, guardianship, estate administration, and trust administration.
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08, 2024
Leaving a Residence to a Person with a Disability
This issue of The Voice® is written by Lauretta K. Murphy of Miller Johnson in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She focuses her practice on estate planning, elder law, disability and special needs planning, guardianship and conservatorships and wills and trust disputes.
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10, 2024
When And How Do I Fund My Special Needs Trust for My Child with Disabilities?
This issue of The Voice® is written by Thomas Begley, CELA, of Begley Law Group in Moorestown, New Jersey. His firm specializes in special needs planning, special needs trusts, guardianship, and estate planning.
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15, 2024
Training Workers with Disabilities and Educating Employers: Moji Coffee + More
Five years ago, a group of parents in Winston-Salem, North Carolina created Moji Coffee + More out of a desire to create meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Now this June, Moji celebrates its fifth anniversary and its evolution from a simple coffee shop into a catalyst of change for employees and businesses alike.