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document Overview - Supplemental Needs Trusts
Supplemental Needs Trusts (SNTs) are legal tools used to help disabled people keep more of their income or assets without losing their public benefits. SNTs were originally invented to allow parents of children with developmental disabilities to provide for them after they grow up without making...
document Step-by-step guide to enrolling in the NYSARC Pooled SNT for Medicaid spend-down
This article is intended as a condensed road-map for using the NYSARC Pooled SNT to eliminate the Medicaid spend-down.  This article contemplates that the individual is applying for Medicaid in order to obtain home care services.  The sequence of events will be different if that is...
document Advocate's Outline on Supplemental Needs Trusts
This in-depth training outline covers how Supplemental Needs Trusts work (both individual and pooled), and how they affect eligibility for many different public benefits.
document List of Pooled SNTs in New York State
This document contains a list of all of the non-profit organizations in New York State that operate Pooled Supplemental Needs Trusts.
document How to use a pooled SNT to eliminate the Medicaid spend-down.
This memo explains how to use a Pooled Supplemental Needs Trust to eliminate the Medicaid spend-down. This article was authored by the Evelyn Frank Legal Resources Program of Selfhelp Community Services, Inc.  


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