Have you ever stopped to consider how long you or your parents have worked to build the value of your estates? That hard work can be significantly compromised when faced with the high cost of nursing home care. Most people know they can rely on Medicaid to cover the cost of nursing home care but only after near exhaustion of their hard earned assets. The Deficit Reduction Act passed in 2006 made it even more difficult to qualify for Medicaid by including a five year look back period. It is […]
February 2009
By Keith Schneider, Partner at Maguire & Schneider LLP Published in MY Business, The magazine from the National Federation of Independent Business Background/Applicability Prevailing wage (PW) laws require that workers on certain public construction projects be paid a specified minimum wage. Recently, Gov. Ted Strickland significantly expanded the prevailing wage guidelines to include even more types of projects. Among other applications, the new guidelines broaden prevailing wage to projects involving state support for environmental cleanup, as well as to the purchase of machinery and equipment with sate dollars. Even a […]