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The Means Test Allows Health Care Before Creditors

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Means test

Means test surprise

Health insurance is an allowable means test deduction, even if the debtor doesn’t currently have health insurance. In my view, the sweetest words in an otherwise miserable bankruptcy means test are found  buried in a long paragraph of ยง707(b)(2)(A)(ii)(1): The debtor’s monthly expenses “shall include reasonably necessary health insurance, disability insurance and health savings account expenses…” […]

Filed Under: Means test Tagged With: health insurance

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