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I thought about contacting an elder law but I thought elder laws were only good for people that are concerned about assets. She has no property or funds or any kind of investment other than an IRA but her assets in total are below $2000 and she is..practically homeless (no address) with no income. The difficulty is I don't have a green card physically with me but I do know items such as her alien number. If an elder law is useful just to know if she will meet the non-citizen requirement then I would check them out. The 40 credits requirement doesn't apply in Minnesota and because she lived in the united states prior to 1996 and has been living here for more than 5 years. she'll meet the non-citizen requirement.
Check for state or county level Senior Advocacy agencies; don't know what the terminology is, there in Texas. These are low cost/free sources of informative help for seniors. I'd also check to see what's available along these lines in Minnesota as you are thinking of relocating there.
This is sad - what the USA has come to while, at the same time, we have Starbucks and Burger King in the Green Zone in Bagdad......
The wealthiest country in the world and we cannot take basic care of our own citizens.
Sorry - but praying won't do it. Meditating won't do it. People must fight to have health care become a basic right in this country and to start spending our money on ourselves as opposed to occupying the known world.
The wealthiest country in the world and we cannot take basic care of our own citizens.
The OP's mother is a permanent resident, which means she has the right to live here. She is not a U.S. citizen. She would have to be naturalized for that, and that can't happen for some number of years yet.
She doesn't qualify for Medicaid in Texas, because 10 years (40 credits) work is required of permanent residents and she only received her green card six months ago. If I understand correctly, she has not worked at all in the last several years.
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The OP's mother is a permanent resident, which means she has the right to live here. She is not a U.S. citizen. She would have to be naturalized for that, and that can't happen for some number of years yet.
She doesn't qualify for Medicaid in Texas, because 10 years (40 credits) work is required of permanent residents and she only received her green card six months ago. If I understand correctly, she has not worked at all in the last several years.
She had been working from 1982 up until 2014 (when she was laid off) and worked small part time jobs from 2015 - 2016. But on July 2016, she was granted permanent residency but unfortunately, a few weeks later, she was hospitalized and that was where she had her stroke. Most of her work time was when she was a working under a work permit, or some work visa, I don't know what status she had before the permanent resident.
In order to get Medicaid and CHIP coverage, many qualified non-citizens (such as many LPRs or green card holders) have a 5-year waiting period. This means they must wait 5 years after receiving "qualified" immigration status before they can get Medicaid and CHIP coverage. There are exceptions. Health coverage for lawfully present immigrants | HealthCare.gov
I'm not sure your mother will qualify in ANY state. If she has been here 30 years, why didn't
she try to become a citizen earlier to receive all the benefits of being one? At any rate, yes
it is sad and I feel bad for her and you, but if I was you I would look into what benefits she
can get back in her home country. If she can be in a nursing home there, then that's what needs to be done. Especially since it sounds like you can't take care of her.
OP, forgive me if I'm repeating or garbling what you already said, but isn't there an issue with her rehab, too? I think you said she had already been getting it and making some progress (?) but clearly in her present condition much more needs to be done.
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In order to get Medicaid and CHIP coverage, many qualified non-citizens (such as many LPRs or green card holders) have a 5-year waiting period. This means they must wait 5 years after receiving "qualified" immigration status before they can get Medicaid and CHIP coverage. There are exceptions. Health coverage for lawfully present immigrants | HealthCare.gov
I'm not sure your mother will qualify in ANY state. If she has been here 30 years, why didn't
she try to become a citizen earlier to receive all the benefits of being one? At any rate, yes
it is sad and I feel bad for her and you, but if I was you I would look into what benefits she
can get back in her home country. If she can be in a nursing home there, then that's what needs to be done. Especially since it sounds like you can't and don't want to take care of her.
The five year wait period applies if someone gained status after 1996 but there are states that have a looser requirement where if you were a lawful residing in the US on and before 1996 but later received status after 1996, then five year bar doesn't apply to you as long as you were residing in the united states continuously since then (you just have to show proof). This rule applied for states like Oregon and connecticut, Washington, Maine?, etc. There is absolutely no one that she knows in her home country, I can't up and reside there as I am not a citizen in that country and besides I think the health care quality and the qualify of living in general in her home country is much much worse. I don't know why she chose to do this much much later.
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OP, forgive me if I'm repeating or garbling what you already said, but isn't there an issue with her rehab, too? I think you said she had already been getting it and making some progress (?) but clearly in her present condition much more needs to be done.
Yes she was but because the nursing home kicked her out and she has been going in and out of hospitals lately, I think she is getting back to worse because she is not receiving any therapy. That is why this is important why she needs nursing home care. Who knows? if she received therapy a year from now, she may be able to do some things independently and improve and she won't really need long term nursing home care in the long run. That may or may not happy but the last time I checked before, the nursing home discharged her, they were in the middle of getting her to learn how to stand.
This is sad - what the USA has come to while, at the same time, we have Starbucks and Burger King in the Green Zone in Bagdad......
The wealthiest country in the world and we cannot take basic care of our own citizens.
Sorry - but praying won't do it. Meditating won't do it. People must fight to have health care become a basic right in this country and to start spending our money on ourselves as opposed to occupying the known world.
The woman in question is not a citizen, that's a big part of the problem. I don't know where to draw that line of who we take care of who we don't. I mean if people start coming here from scores of countries to get free health care here, is that a good idea? Should health care be limited to citizens? Or y'all come and we'll take care of you? Do people have some responsibility to pay for health insurance? Or should the rest of us always pay for everyone?
Did the US government put in Starbucks and Burger King in the Green Zone? Sounds like private industry to me but I could be wrong
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