Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: medicaid
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), thel agency that administers Medicare, is responsible for recovering past overpayments and to ensure that future medical benefits are paid by the primary payer (liability insurers, Worker’s Comp, self-insureds, judgments, settlements, compromises, etc,) and not shifted to Medicare.
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For those of you, including structured settlement brokers, settlement planners, accountants, lawyers, judges,claim adjusters and regulators, who think that the Internet is not an important space for the education of structured settlement and settlement planning prospects and clients, think again! Some eye catching statistics worthy of your consideration: 28% of Americans 65 and older use…
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Pladson had a deferred annuity with no cash out provision yet was denied benefits because the annuity benefits could be sold to a factoring company such as JG Wentworth, New England Brokerage or Peachtree (which advertise “Annuity Purchase Program” all over the Internet)
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State Medicaid agencies are now limited in their ability to recover Medicaid liens against a beneficiary’s tort settlement according to a United States Supreme Court decision released on May 1, 2006. In the case of Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services et al., Petitioners v Heidi Ahlborn 547 US 04-1506 (2006) the Supremes ruled…
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The Disability Savings Act of 2008, introduced by Senator Dodd (D-CT) on March 11, 2008 as Senate Bill 2741, would amend the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax exemption for disability savings accounts (DSA) that have a value of $250,000 or less and are established for beneficiaries under the age of 65 who are…
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As government entitlements become less certain there will be a need for more certainty…the kind of certainty that structured settlements can provide, that we offer. Structured settlement annuities offer certainty, deferred income annuities offer certainty, structured attorney fee annuities offer certainty, structured sales and employment stuctured settlements offer certainty.