This sounds similar to the tactics that New York State pulled on my Mom’s best friend about 20 years ago.
My mom’s best friend was in a car wreck that killed her husband and her son and left her wheelchair bound for the rest of her life. She could not work and had no benefits so she subsisted on disability and welfare. About 8 years later and still wheelchair bound, she met and married a man who had just retired. He had been an autoworker, single all his life, had saved his money and had a nice nest egg and retired with a comfortable autoworker’s pension. The month after their marriage New York State seized his bank accounts, garnished his pension and went about the process of getting back all the money they’d ever spent on his new wife over the years for her medical problems and welfare maintenance.
They should never have married.
There is a clause in 0bamacar that allows them to do the same thing if you take a policy that is subsidized and then become successful...
Same with the Medicaid deal too.
you have to pay it all back.
Looked into it a few years ago with the guy I was dating. Sometimes seniors marry so they can extend pension benefits to survivors. Sometimes they marry for improved medical benefits. Sometimes to transfer a house or other property to a partner instead of kids who want to grab it.
But it's not a good idea for seniors with established financial identities and any relatives at all, doesn't matter how distant. It opens the other's estate up to all kinds of unsavory people you never used to be related to.