so a lot of clients who come into our

office have who have loved ones with a

disability want to make sure that that

person is protected for their whole life

financially so what they’ll do is

they’ll incorporate a provision in their

trust or in their will leaving a larger

share of their estate to that person or

leaving a certain amount of money to

that person who has a disability

what they don’t understand is that that

could put the person who they love with

a disability at risk of actually losing

eligibility for those great programs and

services that Medicaid provides what we

do is we make sure that for any clients

who have a loved one with a disability

to build in something called a Special

Needs Trust into their estate plan and

that way if our clients want to leave a

bigger share or really anything to a

loved one with a disability they can

make sure that any inheritance to that

person with a disability goes into the

Special Needs Trust rather than going to

that person with a disability outright

because those two things really make the

difference about whether someone could

be eligible for Medicaid programs or not