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MORTGAGE HAD PRIORITY OVER COUNTY’S CLAIM FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF MEDICAID BENEFITS.

The Third Department determined a mortgage held by Wells Fargo had priority to a claim by the county seeking reimbursement of Medicaid benefits received by the decedent:

 

Petitioner [Saratoga County Department of Social Services] asserts priority pursuant to Social Services Law § 104 (1), which provides, in relevant part, that “[i]n all claims of the public welfare official made under [such] section[,] the public welfare official shall be deemed a preferred creditor” (emphasis added). “Preferred creditor” has been construed to give a social services department priority over a “general creditor, that is, a creditor that, upon giving credit, takes no rights against specific property of a debtor” … . Here, Wells Fargo holds a mortgage lien against the Rotterdam property that was recorded prior to the May 2014 decree of Surrogate's Court validating petitioner's claim. Although Medicaid assistance was provided to decedent before the mortgage was given, petitioner did not have a prior lien against the property (see Social Services Law § 369 [2] [a]). As such, we conclude that Wells Fargo's prior specific lien gives it priority over petitioner's claim with respect to the … property … . Matter of Shambo, 2016 NY Slip Op 02699, 3rd Dept 4-7-16


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