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SHIPtalk is a website from SHIP. What is SHIP? In case you didn’t know, it stands for State Health Insurance assistance Program. According to their web site, “it is a national program that offers one-on-one counseling and assistance to people with Medicare and their families. Through federal grants directed to states, SHIPs provide free counseling and assistance via telephone and face-to-face interactive sessions, public education presentations and programs, and media activities.”

SHIP is run in each state individually in the United States and thus is customized to the state programs, needs and diversity of the population. There are over 12,000 counselors; they have helped more than 2 million medicare beneficiaries. SHIP helps people with their medicare, medicaid, long-term care related insurance needs. Their counselling sessions are provided free of cost through federal grants and can also be accessed over the phone using a toll free number. Check their website to find a counselor or toll free number near you.

Even if this information may not be needed for you, someone you know might benefit from their services. So please do pass this information to such people.

Let’s all be safe, healthy and secure and help those around us to be safe, healthy and secure as well.