Medicare is seriously confusing. I wrote a couple of
weeks ago about how I had applied for assistance with Medicare Part B and assistance
with Part D. Right now I have no part D
(the drug part) and pay $100 a month for Part B. I talked about how I had filed
out paperwork to get assistance. I had thought I was applying for help with
Part B ---so that I didn’t pay $100 a month. Instead, I was applying for help
with Part D and that was what had been denied.
Apparently help with Part B is up to the state of
Texas which recently denied me saying I hadn’t filed out an application. Of
course, one can’t fill out an application if one does not get one. But, that is
a separate issue. Our food stamps have been cutoff due to another error by them
so it isn’t surprising this is messed up as well.
After appealing the recent Social Security decision
against me and providing Sandi’s paystubs again as well as her copies of her
unpaid medical leave paperwork as requested by an office of Social Security up
in Baltimore, I got the decision today. They have thankfully reversed course
and finally approved me.
This means I am now approved for some sort of financial
help to purchase the MEDICARE PART D deal. How much a month I have no idea at
all, but anything will be a huge help.
So, now I have to spend some time working through government
websites and trying to figure out which plan will work for me. Hopefully, I
will be notified how much in assistance I am eligible for before the signup cutoff
date of December 7.
I am also going to photocopy the Social Security approval
letter and send it to the same state government people who denied me because I supposedly
failed to fill out their application (one I never got) and see if anything can
be done.
Kevin
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4 comments:
Good luck plowing through the minefields. When I was going through similar stuff, not nearly as bad as you folks though, I often wondering if it was all deliberate to discourage people into giving up.
It do make one wonder.
It is a wonder how anybody deserving is receiving anything, especially as you're able to read and comprehend. I wonder for those folks who cannot read...
I honestly wonder, Terry. Any mental impairment, like my son has, makes these things doubly difficult.
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