# Connecticut — Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules by State

For Connecticut, what counts as the estate is all sums due on or after July 1, 2003, to any individual after the death of a Medicaid beneficiary pursuant to the terms of an annuity contract purchased at any time with assets of a Medicaid beneficiary, shall be deemed to be part of the estate of the deceased beneficiary; survivor protections is The claim of the state shall only be to the extent that the amount which the surviving spouse, parent or dependent children of the decedent would otherwise take from such estate is not needed for their support; citation is Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17b-95, recorded from its source on 2026-08-31.

- **State:** Connecticut _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **What counts as the estate:** all sums due on or after July 1, 2003, to any individual after the death of a Medicaid beneficiary pursuant to the terms of an annuity contract purchased at any time with assets of a Medicaid beneficiary, shall be deemed to be part of the estate of the deceased beneficiary _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Survivor protections:** The claim of the state shall only be to the extent that the amount which the surviving spouse, parent or dependent children of the decedent would otherwise take from such estate is not needed for their support. _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Citation:** Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17b-95 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (a) Upon the death of any person who has at any time been a beneficiary of the Medicaid program, the state shall have a claim against such person's estate for all amounts paid on behalf of such person under the Medicaid program for which the state has not been reimbursed and that the state is required to recover under federal law

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### What counts as the estate

> (c) For purposes of this section, all sums due on or after July 1, 2003, to any individual after the death of a Medicaid beneficiary pursuant to the terms of an annuity contract purchased at any time with assets of a Medicaid beneficiary, shall be deemed to be part of the estate of the deceased beneficiary and shall be payable to the state by the recipient of such annuity payments

### Survivor protections

> The claim of the state shall only be to the extent that the amount which the surviving spouse, parent or dependent children of the decedent would otherwise take from such estate is not needed for their support.

## Source

- https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_319s.htm

Last verified: 2026-08-31. Review by: 2027-08-31.
Part of [Medicaid Estate Recovery Rules by State](https://referencesource.org/medicaid-estate-recovery-rules-by-state/).