Released on = June 13, 2007, 1:20 pm

Press Release Author = Lala C. Ballatan

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = In commemoration of the coming Father's Day celebration, the
Social Security Administration and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services
worked together in order to get across some benefits to Medicare beneficiaries. An
extra help is guaranteed for Medicare beneficiaries concerning the costs for their
prescription drugs. A beneficiary or a loved one can file for this extra help
Medicare program.

Press Release Body = In commemoration of the coming Father's Day celebration, the
Social Security Administration and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services
worked together in order to get across some benefits to Medicare beneficiaries. An
extra help is guaranteed for Medicare beneficiaries concerning the costs for their
prescription drugs. A beneficiary or a loved one can file for this extra help
Medicare program.

Los Angeles, California, June 12, 2007 - In order to determine if the relative you
are filing extra help for is eligible for the said Medicare benefit, the Social
Security requires to be informed about the target beneficiaries' income and their
savings' value.

Moreover, the Social Security must also know the applying beneficiaries' investments
and owned real estate property, excluding their home.

For beneficiaries to qualify for the extra help program by the Medicare, the
following is required:

- Income must be limited to $15, 315 for one individual or $20, 535 for a couple
that are married and living together. Even if your loved ones may still have a
higher annual income, they may still become eligible for benefits and receive some
help with their premiums every month, deductibles per annum and co-payments for
prescription.

Income may be higher than according to stipulated if the individual or spouse
support some of their family members who are living with them, have some earnings
generated from work or lives in Hawaii or Alaska

- Resources must only be limited to $11,710 for one individual or $23,410 for a
couple that is married and living together. Resources may be identified as the
individual or couple's stock and bonds or bank accounts.

The Medicare program does not count house and car of an individual or couple as
resources.

To apply for the extra help benefits, the Social Security has developed an online
application process wherein third parties like family members or caregivers can fill
up to assist the Medicare beneficiaries apply and eventually, receive their
benefits.

For more information about the extra help benefits to be imparted by the Social
Security and Medicare Services program, log on to www.ssa.gov

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