Extra Help with prescriptions...

There have been quite a few folks who talk about their costs of prescriptions and going into the doughnut hole while being on Medicare.

This is the link below to the SSA website to learn about the Extra Help program. It's a very easy form to fill out to see if you qualify. My mom and I just found out about this for her and we applied in June and was approved in July.

She now pays even less for all her prescriptions, they take out less for her monthly payments, and there will be no doughnut hole!!! They even reimbursed her for June and July's portion of her monthly payment.

Hope this can help others!!

https://secure.ssa.gov/i1020/start

Post Edited (Snowbunny21) : 8/22/2013 7:02:15 PM (GMT-6)

:)

Here's a bit more info:

 • Your resources must be limited to
$13,300 for an individual or $26,580
for a married couple living together.
Resources include such things as bank
accounts, stocks and bonds. We do
NOT count your home, car and any life
insurance policy as resources; and

• Your annual income must be limited to
$17,235 for an individual or $23,265 for
a married couple living together. Even
if your annual income is higher, you
still may be able to get some help.

Some examples where your income may be
higher are if you or your spouse:

 —Support other family members who
live with you;
——Have earnings from work; or
——Live in Alaska or Hawaii.

Thanks M&G....I am making the link you put in your post "hot" so people can click on it below..

http://www.medicare.gov/people-like-me/extra-help/extra-help.html

Hi all, back in 2001, June the lawyer who got the SSI for me, also signed me up for Medicare and I received my first Medicare and you handbook, although it is rather difficult to read all the time, if you look in the directory it will give you the page number to look on to get extra help. I applied and a month later I received the extra help.

Since the handbook is difficult to get through, and I believe its somewhat hidden in a bunch of hoo-haa, I read and re-read that chapter.

Not every year, but about every 2 years I re-sign for the extra help and always get it, lets face it we are not getting rich off SSI nor SSD.

So when you get your Medicare and you handbook, read carefullu the chapters relevant to you, or if you need reading material, read if, but be ready to ready it several times, its confusing.

Kathy

Making M&G's link to the booklet "hot" for those to click on it:)

http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/10050.pdf

Thanks Loretta....it should be working now:)