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Medicaid Planning · Vermont

Vermont Medicaid estate recovery

Medicaid estate recovery rules for Vermont.

Published: Not yet published. Last checked: September 5, 2026.

Recovery scope

Vermont files a probate claim for nursing-facility, home-based long-term-care, and related hospital and prescription-drug payments; the estate is real and personal property included in probate.

Source: Vermont DVHA Long-Term Care Recovery From Estates notice [state-medicaid-agency] — Form revised May 2012

Controlling authority

Vermont DVHA Estate Recovery standard operating procedure

Source: Vermont DVHA Estate Recovery standard operating procedure [state-medicaid-agency] — Issued September 21, 2023; annual review required

Exemptions and deferrals

Recovery does not proceed while there is a surviving spouse or a surviving child who is blind or permanently disabled.

Source: Vermont DVHA Estate Recovery standard operating procedure [state-medicaid-agency] — Issued September 21, 2023; annual review required

Hardship-waiver path

A qualifying homestead is protected when it passes to a lineal heir or sibling below 300% of the federal poverty level or to one who contributed significantly enough to delay or avoid nursing-home placement.

Source: 33 V.S.A. section 1906a [state-statute] — Last amended effective May 20, 2014 Additional authority: Vermont DVHA Long-Term Care Recovery From Estates notice [state-medicaid-agency] — Form revised May 2012

Lien practice

Source unavailable. Check with the state Medicaid agency.

State Medicaid agency

Sources

Methodology & sources

Checked at least annually and whenever recovery statutes, waivers, liens, or agency practices change.

General information, not legal advice.