Comments on: Medicaid Estate Recovery: Exceptions http://medicaidsecrets.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/medicaid-estate-recovery-exceptions/ Elder Law and Medicaid: Planning, Ideas and Concepts Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:02:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Steve Smith http://medicaidsecrets.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/medicaid-estate-recovery-exceptions/#comment-56 Steve Smith Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:19:24 +0000 http://medicaidsecrets.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-56 FYI: All states DO NOT have a statute of limitations for filing claims. Missouri for example is exempt from the one year rule. http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/c400-499/4730000444.htm Remember however, although the State is not barred by "making" a claim, collecting that debt may be unenforceable after 18 months from death. http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/C400-499/4610000300.HTM I know because I was in this very situation. Although the State never pursued an accounting, they might have had they been within the allowed time timit. FYI:
All states DO NOT have a statute of limitations for filing claims. Missouri for example is exempt from the one year rule.

http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/c400-499/4730000444.htm

Remember however, although the State is not barred by “making” a claim, collecting that debt may be unenforceable after 18 months from death.

http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/C400-499/4610000300.HTM

I know because I was in this very situation. Although the State never pursued an accounting, they might have had they been within the allowed time timit.

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