1) EconomicCheckup.org from the National Center on Aging
Get started by completing a simple 23 question comprehensive questionnaire.
This will give you an overview of all the ways you can improve your financial situation.
The Economic Checkup tool can help you to:
- Find a job
- Reduce spending
- Reduce your debt
- Use your home equity
2) BenefitsCheckUp.org
- This tool can help seniors find public and private benefits for the following areas:
- Food: SNAP, Commodity supplemental food program, home delivery of meals, etc.
- Health care: Medicaid, Medicare savings programs, donated vision, dental services, prescription assistance
- Property tax rebates, discounts
- Respite, Adult day care
- Income: SSI, cash assistance
- LIS (Low Income Subsidy) from the SSA
- Veterans’s benefits
- Utilities: energy assistance, telephone, Internet
- Transportation
- Discounts at National Parks
- Legal Aid for the elderly
- and many others!
- You can use BenefitsCheckUp.org is you are 55+ years old
- Once you find the programs you are eligible for you can click on a link to get a fact sheet on how to apply for the benefit
- An average person can be eligible for hundreds or even thousands of dollars worth of benefits. It definitely worth trying!
3) My Medicare Matters – Medicare QuickCheck
- www.mymedicarematters.org/
- Information on how to enroll in Medicare, coverage, costs, etc.
- Medicare QuickCheck
- This is a brief series of questions
- You will get a personalized report that will
- It will tell you when to sign up for Medicare or when you should delay signing up
- It will answer your questions
- It will give you information on how you can get help with health care costs