MR #25.09 2025 Irrevocable Prepaid Burial Limit Increase

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02/25/2025

Summary:

  • The Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled (AABD) cash and medical exemption for an irrevocable prepaid burial contract is adjusted annually for any increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Users (CPI-U).
  • The exemption is increased from $7,981 to $8,212 effective 01/01/2025.

The amount of the exemption for an irrevocable prepaid burial contract is adjusted annually for any increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Users (CPI-U).

The exemption of an irrevocable prepaid burial contract will increase to $8,212 effective 01/01/2025.

Increase of the Irrevocable Prepaid Contract

IES will use the increased $8,212 exemption for:

  • all AABD cash and medical application decisions made effective 01/01/2025; and
  • all AABD cash and medical redeterminations.

Manual Revisions:

PM 07-02-08-c

PM 07-02-08-f

[signed copy on file]

Dulce M. Quintero

Secretary, Illinois Department of Human Services

Elizabeth Whitehorn

Director, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services