Something similar happened to my family in the last few years. I would recommend speaking with an attorney any way you can afford it. In our case, we basically gifted the assets to family members so they couldn't be taken. But there might be some fuckery you can do with a trust.
Hopefully that's the case; when I had to look into Medicaid for similar reasons years back though, the paperwork said they looked at the last 5 years of finances for gifts like that. This was Florida though, hopefully it's a state by state thing and op is living somewhere still pretending to have a heart.
Something similar happened to my family in the last few years. I would recommend speaking with an attorney any way you can afford it. In our case, we basically gifted the assets to family members so they couldn't be taken. But there might be some fuckery you can do with a trust.
Hopefully that's the case; when I had to look into Medicaid for similar reasons years back though, the paperwork said they looked at the last 5 years of finances for gifts like that. This was Florida though, hopefully it's a state by state thing and op is living somewhere still pretending to have a heart.