Opinion ID: 171635
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Heading: Brown's Eligibility for Medicaid

Text: When Brown's mother passed away in 2003, Brown became the beneficiary of a residuary trust. The trust corpus includes approximately $15,000 in cash, two annuities totaling about $23,000, and the rights to 160 acres of agricultural land in Kingman County, Kansas (valued at approximately $30,000). Brown's brother, Donald, is the trustee. Given Brown's disabilities, the trust provides the Trustee with the discretion to make a distribution of trust income or principal for Brown's benefit. Brown herself, however, has no legal authority to compel distribution under the trust. As a result, Kansas did not deem Brown's trust assets available resources before 2004. Other than the trust, Brown apparently possesses no other assets that would allow her to pay the difference between her Social Security benefits and the costs of her residential care facility.