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Special Needs Trusts

A Special Needs Trust is a trust set up to provide for someone with a disability who has extra and supplemental needs, other than basic food, shelter and health care expenses that may be covered by public assistance benefits that the beneficiary may be entitled to receive under various programs such as Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid.  Several non-profit organizations provide this financial service to beneficiaries in the District of Columbia