Time was that by this date the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would have released Medicaid’s spousal impoverishment figures for the coming year. But for the last few years the release date has been later. Still, we have a pretty good idea what the 2018 figures should be. With the September 2017 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) announced in October, Pennsylvania ElderLawAnswers member Robert Clofine has made his now-annual prediction of next year’s Medicaid’s spousal impoverishment figures. In an email to his state colleagues in the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Clofine forecasts that the 2018 maximum community spouse resource allowance (CSRA) should be $123,600 and the minimum CSRA should be $24,720. The maximum monthly maintenance needs allowance should become $3,090.
We’ll let our readers know as soon as CMS issues the official word on these figures as well as the income cap for waiver and Medicaid's home equity limits.
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