MN SF3506

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 256B.059, subdivision 5, regarding asset availability for institutionalized spouses seeking medical assistance benefits.

Excludes life estates owned by a community spouse at the time an institutionalized spouse applies for medical assistance from consideration as available assets.

Allows an institutionalized spouse to qualify for medical assistance despite excess assets if they are owned by the community spouse, the institutionalized spouse cannot access them without consent, and one of three conditions is met: assignment of support rights to the commissioner, inability to execute assignment due to impairment, or denial would cause imminent threat to health.

Specifies that after initial eligibility determination, no community spouse assets are considered available to the institutionalized spouse during continuous enrollment, except in cases where eligibility was granted under the excess asset exception.

Effective retroactively from June 24, 2020, and applies to all medical assistance applications submitted before, on, or after that date.