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I. How We Work in Washington. Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services. APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid. We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour. APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
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It doesn't matter where you are employed but the conditions under which you are employed. For instance nannies are employed in the homes where they work but they are still domestic employees. I cannot stress enough the fact that if your mother is receiving the aid and attendance benefit and you are not being paid and cannot show proof of payment from the date when the benefit payments started, VA could demand all of the money back that has been paid to this point. You must have evidence of being paid based on what was submitted with the original application. Do not put that money into her checking account but put it into a separate account in your name. The VA aid and attendance benefit is not an entitlement it is a gift. VA can demand its money back. Don't mess around with them they can be nasty. I am concerned that you seem reluctant to accept the necessity of creating a paper trail in case you are audited by VA. In addition, in January of every year the EVR must be filled out and it must be certified that you were paid the amount that you said you would be paid. Most people don't understand that the original application has really nothing to do with the benefit that is paid. The annual EVR is the actual verification that VA uses to determine if the benefit was paid properly or not and whether future benefits will be paid.
I help people with this benefit daily and talk to hundreds of people every month. I recently talked to one poor lady who didn't understand the necessity of keeping proper records and of answering the questions on the EVR and not ignoring it. She had to repay VA $45,000 that her husband had received, probably because she ignored the EVR and thought that the benefit was an entitlement which it is not. It was an extreme hardship for her. Without records she could not prove her case but it appears from what she told me that she did not have to pay that money back.
My mom lives in my home. She requires 24/7 care, documented by her docs. She has recently drawn up a caregiver contract and intends to pay me, significantly less than a nursing home. Am I still considered a domestic employee in my own home? Thanks,
Under IRS rules you are a domestic employee. The so-called nanny tax applies. Go online to Google and type in "nanny tax" and find out the responsibilities. There are services online that will do the tax withholding for the Social Security, Medicare tax and unemployment tax and issue you the W-2 at the end of the year. As a general rule, federal and state taxes do not have to be withheld and deposited quarterly but they must be paid.
Make sure you keep adequate records and have a care contract between you and your parents. Most advisers also require that you keep a daily care log of the services you provide . There must be a medical component to your services such as medication reminders , helping with activities of daily living or providing a secure environment in the event of dementia or Alzheimer's . Without the medical component, your services are not deductible from the parents income and VA could disallow the benefit from day one . Even providing just a few minutes of the medical services a week will make all of your nonmedical services deductible.
Having a tax service also helps create a paper trail. When he or she fills out the EVR for VA in January of each year, the veteran beneficiary or the fiduciary if you are such have to certify in writing the exact medical costs that were incurred the previous year as well as your parents have to report their income and assets for the previous year. Any deviation from the estimates that were made when you submitted the initial application could result in an adjustment of the benefit or worse case scenario VA could come back and demand its money back. You need to be extremely careful about documenting the flow of money. Do not put money back in their checking account but keep the money they pay you in a separate account of your own. VA does random audits on EVR's and you must have verification for medical expenses paid to you by your parents or VA will disallow the benefit from day one, demand all of its money back and send a collection agency and impose penalties and even execute court judgments . VA has also been known to garner pension checks and Social Security to get its money back . Be aware of the consequences of not keeping a paper trail . Also medical expenses must exceed or equal your parents combined income in order to receive the maximum benefit. Make sure they pay you every month or there could be dire consequences. Tom
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
I agree that:
A.
I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
B.
APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
C.
APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
D.
If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
E.
This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year.
F.
You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
I help people with this benefit daily and talk to hundreds of people every month. I recently talked to one poor lady who didn't understand the necessity of keeping proper records and of answering the questions on the EVR and not ignoring it. She had to repay VA $45,000 that her husband had received, probably because she ignored the EVR and thought that the benefit was an entitlement which it is not. It was an extreme hardship for her. Without records she could not prove her case but it appears from what she told me that she did not have to pay that money back.
Make sure you keep adequate records and have a care contract between you and your parents. Most advisers also require that you keep a daily care log of the services you provide . There must be a medical component to your services such as medication reminders , helping with activities of daily living or providing a secure environment in the event of dementia or Alzheimer's . Without the medical component, your services are not deductible from the parents income and VA could disallow the benefit from day one . Even providing just a few minutes of the medical services a week will make all of your nonmedical services deductible.
Having a tax service also helps create a paper trail. When he or she fills out the EVR for VA in January of each year, the veteran beneficiary or the fiduciary if you are such have to certify in writing the exact medical costs that were incurred the previous year as well as your parents have to report their income and assets for the previous year. Any deviation from the estimates that were made when you submitted the initial application could result in an adjustment of the benefit or worse case scenario VA could come back and demand its money back. You need to be extremely careful about documenting the flow of money. Do not put money back in their checking account but keep the money they pay you in a separate account of your own. VA does random audits on EVR's and you must have verification for medical expenses paid to you by your parents or VA will disallow the benefit from day one, demand all of its money back and send a collection agency and impose penalties and even execute court judgments . VA has also been known to garner pension checks and Social Security to get its money back . Be aware of the consequences of not keeping a paper trail . Also medical expenses must exceed or equal your parents combined income in order to receive the maximum benefit. Make sure they pay you every month or there could be dire consequences.
Tom