FLORIDA GUARDIAN CORRECT STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔A Social Security representative payee must complete an annual questionnaire that
asks how much of the Social Security benefits were spent on - ✔✔Food and housing
and medical/dental care, recreation and clothing on behalf of the beneficiary.
✔✔When a person is approved to receive supplemental security income benefits of at
least one dollar, he or she is entitled to receive Medicaid benefits as well. - ✔✔
✔✔An individual approved to receive Medicaid for nursing home care is allowed to have
so much money for personal needs such as cigarettes, clothing and personal items. -
✔✔$130
✔✔And individual may have $2500 in a revocable burial savings account, $2000 in cash
assets, unlimited prepaid irrevocable funeral, a car, a residence, and still qualify for
Medicaid benefits in a nursing home. - ✔✔True
✔✔Optional state supplement/OSS is a cash assistance program that pays for a
persons care in an ALF - ✔✔True
✔✔A person who is receiving OSS benefits is entitled to keep how much money for his
personal needs - ✔✔$54
✔✔What kind of a trust is a strategy that may be employed when a patient's funds are
over the income cap to qualify for Medicaid? - ✔✔Qualified income trust/QIt
✔✔Allowable expenditures to lower assets in order to qualify for Medicare are, -
✔✔Burial savings account $2500, medical friendly annuities, prepaid irrevocable
funeral, dental care and guardian and attorney fees/requires court approval.
, ✔✔What program is the Medicaid program that pays for skilled nursing home care -
✔✔Institutional care program/ICP.
✔✔A patient must meet the income and asset cats to be eligible for Medicaid to pay for
nursing care and must be screened for by the cares unit to determine if they meet the
level of care for the skilled nursing home - ✔✔True.
✔✔Upon the death of a beneficiary, remaining funds in a QIT must be paid to? Up to
the amount paid for medical care on behalf of the beneficiary - ✔✔The state Medicaid
program
✔✔Funds in a special needs trust for a disabled person/D48, may only be used to pay
for items not covered under the Medicare program and maybe used to pay guardian
and or attorney fees or purchase a van or housing for the beneficiary. - ✔✔True
✔✔The beneficiary does not have the ability to direct how funds will be disbursed in a
third-party self settled trust. - ✔✔True.
✔✔ Parents patriae is a Latin term that translates to - ✔✔King as father parents of the
country
✔✔The concept of Prince Porte has given rise to the States authority to intervene in an
individual's life in order to protect the person from harming himself or others in the
following ways - ✔✔Guardianship or conservatorship. Baker act. Protective services for
children or adults. Involuntary treatment for substance abuse or mental illness.
✔✔Who can amend or change the laws governing guardianship. - ✔✔The Florida
legislature
✔✔What court may impose its own rules and policies in addition to state law. - ✔✔Each
judicial circuit
✔✔Florida statute 744 - ✔✔Florida statute 744 are where the Florida guardianship laws
are found
✔✔Roles that are not appropriate for a guardian to fill are - ✔✔Therapist reformer
surrogate family caregiver companion warden
✔✔Define Plenary guardianship - ✔✔Plenary guardianship means that all delegable
rights have been removed
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔A Social Security representative payee must complete an annual questionnaire that
asks how much of the Social Security benefits were spent on - ✔✔Food and housing
and medical/dental care, recreation and clothing on behalf of the beneficiary.
✔✔When a person is approved to receive supplemental security income benefits of at
least one dollar, he or she is entitled to receive Medicaid benefits as well. - ✔✔
✔✔An individual approved to receive Medicaid for nursing home care is allowed to have
so much money for personal needs such as cigarettes, clothing and personal items. -
✔✔$130
✔✔And individual may have $2500 in a revocable burial savings account, $2000 in cash
assets, unlimited prepaid irrevocable funeral, a car, a residence, and still qualify for
Medicaid benefits in a nursing home. - ✔✔True
✔✔Optional state supplement/OSS is a cash assistance program that pays for a
persons care in an ALF - ✔✔True
✔✔A person who is receiving OSS benefits is entitled to keep how much money for his
personal needs - ✔✔$54
✔✔What kind of a trust is a strategy that may be employed when a patient's funds are
over the income cap to qualify for Medicaid? - ✔✔Qualified income trust/QIt
✔✔Allowable expenditures to lower assets in order to qualify for Medicare are, -
✔✔Burial savings account $2500, medical friendly annuities, prepaid irrevocable
funeral, dental care and guardian and attorney fees/requires court approval.
, ✔✔What program is the Medicaid program that pays for skilled nursing home care -
✔✔Institutional care program/ICP.
✔✔A patient must meet the income and asset cats to be eligible for Medicaid to pay for
nursing care and must be screened for by the cares unit to determine if they meet the
level of care for the skilled nursing home - ✔✔True.
✔✔Upon the death of a beneficiary, remaining funds in a QIT must be paid to? Up to
the amount paid for medical care on behalf of the beneficiary - ✔✔The state Medicaid
program
✔✔Funds in a special needs trust for a disabled person/D48, may only be used to pay
for items not covered under the Medicare program and maybe used to pay guardian
and or attorney fees or purchase a van or housing for the beneficiary. - ✔✔True
✔✔The beneficiary does not have the ability to direct how funds will be disbursed in a
third-party self settled trust. - ✔✔True.
✔✔ Parents patriae is a Latin term that translates to - ✔✔King as father parents of the
country
✔✔The concept of Prince Porte has given rise to the States authority to intervene in an
individual's life in order to protect the person from harming himself or others in the
following ways - ✔✔Guardianship or conservatorship. Baker act. Protective services for
children or adults. Involuntary treatment for substance abuse or mental illness.
✔✔Who can amend or change the laws governing guardianship. - ✔✔The Florida
legislature
✔✔What court may impose its own rules and policies in addition to state law. - ✔✔Each
judicial circuit
✔✔Florida statute 744 - ✔✔Florida statute 744 are where the Florida guardianship laws
are found
✔✔Roles that are not appropriate for a guardian to fill are - ✔✔Therapist reformer
surrogate family caregiver companion warden
✔✔Define Plenary guardianship - ✔✔Plenary guardianship means that all delegable
rights have been removed
