Care cost and Medicaid calculators for your website.
Eight tools: what care will cost by the time it is needed, how long private pay lasts before Medicaid, what the spouse at home keeps, and the property tax exemptions a resident may be owed. Each opens in a small window on your site, with its sources and the date it was reviewed, in plain English. No account needed. Each ends by telling the reader to talk with a professional who knows their whole situation. No account needed.
Put these on your siteTry it: Long-Term Care Cost Projection (opens in a new window)
Where a link goes
- The page on paying for care.
- The tour follow-up email to a family.
- The admissions packet, as a link.
Paste it into an article, a resources page, or an email. The calculator stays here, kept current. Every tool below has its link ready; choose once whether copied links open the minimalist window or the full page.
All 8 tools
Your house and your mortgage
Sell or Keep the House?
Compares staying in your house with selling it and renting, year by year, at the costs and returns you expect.
Illinois Senior Property Tax Exemptions
Shows which Illinois property tax exemptions you qualify for and what each saves at your local tax rate.
Taxes in retirement
IRMAA Appeal Checker
Checks whether you can ask Medicare to base your premium on this year's income instead of a return from two years ago.
Medicare, insurance, and long-term care
Long-Term Care Cost Projection
Projects what a period of long-term care could cost by the time you need it, and what set aside today would cover it.
Illinois Private-Pay Runway Calculator
Estimates how many months of nursing-home costs a household can pay before Illinois Medicaid could take over.
Illinois Spousal Income Allowance
Shows how a couple's monthly income is divided once one spouse is on Illinois Medicaid in a nursing home, and what the spouse at home keeps.
Medicare Enrollment Window
Dates your Medicare sign-up window to your birth month and shows what a late sign-up costs for life.
Illinois Medicaid Long-Term Care Figures
Lists this year's Illinois Medicaid figures for nursing-home care and works out the penalty for gifts made in the last five years.
Or take the whole set as one post
One post with the calculators above. Paste it into a new post as it is, or rewrite the introduction in your voice.
A ready-made post for your blog, with 3 of the calculators above.
Make the introduction your own. Adapt the post as you like; we keep the calculators up to date.
Filled in, the first sentence of the post is yours: “At your firm, these calculators show the arithmetic behind the questions we hear most.”
- 1Open Posts, then Add New, and give the post a title.
- 2Add a Custom HTML block (type /html). In the classic editor, use the Code tab.
- 3Paste, preview, publish. Do this as an administrator.
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3 of 8 tools are included. Change which ones
Your house and your mortgage
Taxes in retirement
Medicare, insurance, and long-term care
Why firms put these on their sites
- It ends with you
- Every tool closes by telling the reader to talk with a professional who knows their whole situation. The reader is on your site, so the next step is your door.
- Something to do, not just read
- A visitor who runs their own numbers stays longer than one who reads, and the number they get is the question they bring to you. Every figure traces to a statute, regulation, or agency release, and when the law moves, it changes here.
- In plain words
- Every tool opens with a plain-English line on what it does and where it stops, so visitors use it without help and know its limits.
Built by Joshua Mangoubi, CFA, MBA. Joshua is a financial adviser who likes building things that help people think clearly about money. We hope these are useful to you and your clients. The tools are educational estimates from primary sources, not advice. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.
Terms. Cite any page, quote any figure with the year attached, or use the links above with the attribution left as it is; add nofollow or any other attribute to the links if you like. No reciprocal link, ever. All 19 professional shelves.