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Medicare Drug Aid No Longer Automatic
More than 600,000 low-income elderly and disabled people who
automatically received federal help to pay for their Medicare drug coverage
this year will have to actively apply to get such assistance in 2007, Medicare
officials said last month. The change affects people who were automatically enrolled in the inaugural year of the drug benefit and got the low-income subsidy in 2006 but who are no longer eligible for Medicaid or two other government assistance programs. Some advocates say the affected seniors may not have understood a letter about the change that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent last month. And even beneficiaries aware might have trouble completing the six-page application . PLEASE NOTE: PORTIONS OF THIS WEB SITE ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION! |
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