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My MIL had no savings/income.  Its actually easier in that situation.  If she is out of the area, and you want to move here here there are low income senior housing and you can help her apply for food stamps, medicaid, energy assistance and more.    Just be careful with the assisted living low income.  We got my MIL in one but the expectation was we pay for a lot of extras - it was not affordable.  I spoke with the HOC worker who could not tell me not to do it but said stuff indirectly that made us pull out (the bigger issue is my MIL also needed far more care).

Just be warned depending on her income, she may not qualify for regular medicaid.  My MIL had it in her state, but when we moved her here, she was denied as the income limits were different (about $1000 social security income).

For nursing homes, long term medicaid will pay but the catch is finding a nursing home that will accept her medicaid pending.  You have to find a nursing home to accept her, then get approved - you can do the paperwork in advanced but they will not approve anything.  Its complicated but doable.  The other catch is if she is out of state, you have to bring her here, make her a resident (i.e. live one day/night in your state) before applying for benefits.  We basically moved my MIL here, took her the next day to the DMV for an ID (she lived with us for 6 months to get it done), then to social services for food stamps and medical (medical was denied but she got food stamps).[/quote]

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