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You can still sign up for a Medicare Prescription Drug plan and pay no penalty for 2006 if you qualify for extra help with Medicare prescription drug costs. Medicare beneficiaries eligible for the extra help have a special enrollment period that allows them to enroll in a plan between May 15 and December 31. Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for the extra help if they have limited income and resources. The extra help can increase your cost savings by paying for part of the monthly premiums, annual deductibles and prescription co-payments under the new prescription drug program. The extra help could be worth an average of $3,700 per year. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement
and Modernization Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-173), enacted December 8,
2003, requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to undertake a
number of additional Medicare-related responsibilities. SSA and the Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are working together to provide
persons with limited income and resources extra help paying for their
prescription drugs. Social Security's role in this partnership is to help
the public understand how they may qualify and apply. Apply Online:
Whether you're filing on your own behalf or helping someone file the application, submit the Internet application
to us right away to avoid delaying the extra help. |
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SSA-1020 |
Sample: Application for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs, SSA-1020. Instruction sheets are available in 15 different languages to help you understand the English application. The instructions are to be used as guides and cannot be used as applications. Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese The actual applications are available only in English and Spanish. You
must complete either an English or Spanish scannable paper application
or you can apply
online (English only). |
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SSA-1021 |
Form to appeal the decision we made about your eligibility for help with Medicare prescription drug plan costs. | |||||||||
SSA-L1026 |
Sample of the Medicare prescription drug assistance notice of review. Please note: The notice you will receive will be tailored to your personal situation and will not be identical to this sample. (English and Spanish PDF) |
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SSA-1026 |
Form to review your continuing eligibility for extra help with Medicare Prescription Drug plan costs. (English and Spanish PDF) | |||||||||
Prescription Help Publications |
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CMS Redetermination Issues |
If you automatically qualified for extra help last year, but no longer automatically qualify, visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MyHealthMyMedicare/ for more information. |
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Video Resources |
Informational Video about Help Available to Pay Costs of Medicare's New
Prescription Drug Program |
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