Legal Question in Health Care Law in New Mexico

Can I recieve medicade benefits and welfare benefits from new mexico and live in arizona. I will still keep my New mexico residence and address. Just my kids will go to school in arizona


Asked on 1/04/11, 7:06 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Charles Aspinwall Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC

Legal residency is a matter of intention. Intending to live in AZ and actually doing so would disqualify one from receiving benefits available only to NM residents. Simply maintaining a dwelling of some kind in NM to continue to receive benefits while living outside NM could be a crime and is definitely unwise.

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Answered on 1/10/11, 7:36 am


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