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The Low Cost Drug for the Elderly and Disabled Program helps to pay for prescription drugs for people whose income is no more than 185% of the federal poverty level. You must be age 62 or older; or age 19 or older and medically qualified for Social Security Disability Income (SSDI). If you spend more than 40% of your income on prescription drugs, the income level increases.

Benefits include:

• 80% of the cost of all generic prescription drugs.
• 80% of the cost of brand-name medications for the treatment of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, chronic lung disease (emphysema and asthma), arthritis, anticoagulation, Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), incontinence, thyroid disease, osteoporosis (bone density loss), Parkinson’s disease, glaucoma, Multiple Sclerosis, and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).
• An average of 25% of the retail cost of most other prescribed medications.
• After you have spent $1,000 on eligible prescription drugs, the program will pay 80% of the cost of all eligible prescription drugs, regardless of your disease. The State will track all your prescription drug costs for you. This catastrophic cap runs from August 1 each year to July 31 of the following year

To request an application or for more information about the medications covered in the program call:

Toll free 1-866-796-2463

TTY 207-287-1828 OR

1-800-423-4331

Your local Area Agency on Aging can tell you the current income guidelines and help you to apply. Call your local Area Agency on Aging at 1-877-353-3771.