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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has agreed to repay more than $500 million to people whose benefits have been withheld since Jan. 1, 2007, because their names and birth dates matched those of people with arrest warrants.

Often the warrants involved traffic or other minor infractions, and sometimes were for completely different people with the same name.

The class action lawsuit, Martinez v. Astrue, settled last week by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken, in Oakland, Calif., will assist the 200,000 people. The agreement not only ordered restitution for 80,000 people wrongfully denied benefits, but it also enabled another 120,000 individuals who were refused assistance from 2000-2006 to reapply for help or ask for back payments.

Source:  New America Media. August 19, 2009.

Beginning January 1, 2010, it will be easier for some Medicare beneficiaries to qualify for the Medicare Part D Extra Help/Low-Income Subsidy (LIS).

Starting January 1, 2010, the Social Security Administration will no longer count life insurance as a resource. In addition, it will no longer count as income any regular financial help that beneficiaries receive to pay household expenses, such as food, mortgage, rent, gas, electricity, water, and property taxes.

Health center makes lives better
TheSpectrum.com
By Patrice St. Germaine

ST. GEORGE – The difference between the Southwest Utah Community Health Center and other health care providers in the community is the health center provides quality health care to everyone, including the uninsured, for affordable prices.
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The Community Health Center, which has the motto “Making lives better in Southwest Utah,” treats patients of all ages. It has a patient base of approximately 4,800 with about 13,000 visits a year.

…As a 501(C)3, non-profit organization, Neff said the center focuses on quality health care rather than profits and provides not only medical and dental care, but has a clinical social worker and provides other services, including a prescription assistance program.

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According to an article, “Free meds for the needy: Good policy or good PR?” in which author John Russell questions whether the magic bus traveling across the United States helping people to see if they qualify for prescription assistance programs is doing consumers any good:

…Last week, Indianapolis-based Lilly widened its program that provides free medications to the uninsured. The company said its Lilly Cares program will now accept people with incomes less than 300 percent of the poverty level, an increase from the previous 200 percent level, meaning the yearly eligible income limit for a family of two is about $44,000.

So if you did not meet income requirements previously, you might consider reapplying to Lilly’s programs under the new income guidelines.

Source: Drug help buses put meds in hands of some consumers, but critics say effort belies need to halt soaring costs. John Russell. August 9, 2009

Alyssa, diagnosed at age 3, was iPump's first client. See how she is doing today (click image for video) and help her raise money for her next "cure" walk

Little Alyssa, a child with a sunny smile and fiery spirit, was only three years old when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.  She was iPump’s first client, so tiny, so newly diagnosed.  Her mother, Cindi a busy mom of three, had no time to feel sorry for herself.  She has spent the past (almost) three years since Alyssa’s diagnosing rallying to raise critical funds for a cure for diabetes.

Here is a video Cindi just sent to us to show us how Alyssa is doing – and what their family is currently doing to raise funds for a cure.  Please have a hankie nearby when you view the video.  It is one of “those” heartwarming, heartbreaking” stories of a beautiful little girl full of life.

Thank you, Cindi (and family), for taking the time to share this video with us!

Video: All 4 Alyssa