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February 16, 2012, 6:00 am
Tracking Down Government Aid
By PAULA SPAN

Credit these folks with a shrewd slogan. The National Council on Aging and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging are kicking off a campaign to nudzh older people into taking advantage of programs they could qualify for but don’t apply for.

We’re talking about things like reduced-cost drugs, food stamps, home care aides, transportation programs. Help with heating bills. Subsidies that lower Medicare premiums. The council analyzed a random sampling of 1,100 older adults or caregivers who’d used its BenefitsCheckUp Web site since 2010 and determined that more than 70 percent were eligible for at least one benefit they weren’t receiving.

So the council and the association are printing up thousands of booklets to be distributed through local agencies on aging and putting notices up on their Web sites and others. The slogan? “You Gave, Now Save."

Read more about what the council is doing here:
http://newoldage.blo...aid/?ref=health