by admin | Apr 6, 2004 | Politics / Govt
The state is ready to kick off the 2004 version of the Missouri Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, which provides lower income senior citizens with help purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables. Lieutenant Governor Joe Maxwell, the state’s...
by admin | Apr 1, 2004 | News
The State Senate has given final approval to legislation to help senior citizens with their prescription drug costs. The bill would close the co-called donut hole in coverage in the federal Medicare prescription drug benefit. It would create the Missouri Senior...
by admin | Mar 23, 2004 | Health / Medicine
Senior citizens who failed to meet the February 28th deadline to re-enroll in the SeniorRX Prescription Drug Program will get a new deadline. Stacy Wright with the program says some people who had been enrolled last year didn’t receive re-enrollment forms and...
by admin | Mar 19, 2004 | News
The state’s way to help Missourians plug a big gap in the new federal Medicare prescription drug program has received first-round approval from the State Senate. The new federal law helps low-income senior citizens pay their drug bills for the first $2,250. Then...
by admin | Mar 18, 2004 | News
Senior citizens faced with big increases in their property tax bills would receive relief from the state through a bill approved by the House and returned to the Senate. The House has made changes to the Homestead Preservation Act previously approved by the Senate....