MEDICARE

Help With Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs
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Medicare is launching a prevention initiative to increase awareness of benefits that help prevent and detect diseases like heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes.  This brochure contains both a checklist of Medicare’s preventive benefits, and questions to ask the doctor and pharmacist. 

Staying Healthy Medicare’s Preventive Services

What you can do right now to make an informed decision about Medicare prescription drug coverage.

19 Million Consumers Receive SSA Application for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs

The Social Security Administration has mailed the Application for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs

(Form SSA-1020) to almost 19 million potentially eligible individuals.  Instruction sheets are available in 15 different languages Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese  to help with understanding the English application. The instructions may be used as guides and cannot be used as applications. The actual applications are available only in English and Spanish. Applicants must complete either an English or Spanish scannable paper application or apply online (English only).

Also, as part of its effort to reach all people who qualify for the extra help, Social Security has contracted with NCS Pearson, Inc. and its partner, West Corporation, to conduct follow-up telephone calls to individuals who have not responded to the initial mailing of the application. Log onto www.ssa.gov to learn more about the procedures used in the follow-up telephone calls .