Low-Income Subsidy for Part D
Extra Help is a Medicare program to help people with limited income and resources pay Medicare prescription drug costs. You may qualify for Extra Help if your yearly income and resources are below these limits in 2021: These amounts may change in 2022. You may qualify even if you have a higher income (like if you still work, live in Alaska or Hawaii, or have dependents living with you). Resources include money in a checking or savings account, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and Individual Retirement
Accounts (IRAs). Resources don’t include your home, car, household items, burial plot, up to $1,500 for burial expenses (per person), or life insurance policies.
Having trouble paying your prescription drugs?
If you qualify for Extra Help and join a Medicare drug plan, you'll: You automatically qualify for Extra Help if you have Medicare and meet any of these conditions: Drug costs in 2019 for people who qualify for Extra Help will be no more than $3.40 for each generic drug and $8.50 for each brand-name drug.
If you don't automatically qualify for Extra Help, you can apply anytime:
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