KrunchTime
New Member
Creating a will for one particular disabled family member is challenging because he is on SSI and owns a nice house (the government lets you do that with SSI). He is broke and barely makes enough money to get by (by renting rooms to some roommates). If I were to leave a lot of money to him, it would just quickly get wiped out by medical bills (because they no longer qualify for SSI). So, it doesn't make sense to leave a ton of money to this person-- like giving money to the government. But, in owning a home, as you can imagine, sometimes there are big repair expenses (which he can't afford). When you're on SSI, you don't qualify for benefits when your bank account goes over $2,000 or something like that. So my question is if there is some sort of trust fund or something that I could create that could be used for repairs on the home? I don't know if SSI allows that. I'm guessing not. Or would it simply be best to leave more money to OTHER family members and ask them to step up and pay for repairs as they become necessary? That might be the only way to protect this money.