Social Security
Medicare
Prescription Drugs
Long Term Care
Voting Safely in 2020
100

This is the earliest age you can begin receiving Social Security retirement benefits.

What is age 62?

100

This program provides affordable health care for 62 million people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.

What is Medicare?

100

This issue forces many older Americans to make decisions between taking needed medication and putting food on the table.

What are high prescription drug costs?

100

These 48 million people provide unpaid care to their loved ones.

Who are family caregivers?

100

The issue most important to you in this Presidential election

What is RX drug prices?

200

Ida May Fuller received her first check dated January 31, 1940 for $22.54.

Who was the first Social Security beneficiary?

200

This insurance benefit was added to Medicare in 2006 to help Medicare beneficiaries cover cost of prescription drugs

What is Medicare Part D

200

This country pays more for prescription drugs than any other country in the world.

What is the United States of America?

200

AARP is fighting to save lives in these facilities and protect seniors from coronavirus by urging government officials to take action and implement commonsense policies like regular testing, improved transparency in reporting cases, and required virtual visitation.

What are nursing home or long-term care facilities

200

Historically, this age voting block is the most reliable and consistent when it comes to overall voting participation.

Who are age 50-plus voters?

300

The 2020 average monthly benefit that retirees receive from Social Security.

What is $1,500.00?

300

The open enrollment period when eligible individuals can enroll in or change their Medicare starts in this month every year.

What is October?

300

This accounted for $1.00 out of every $5.00 that Medicare beneficiaries spend out-of-pocket on health care.

What are prescription drugs

300

The percentage of income, on average, that family caregivers spend on caregiving activities

What is 20 percent?

300

Three options for voting in many states are: early in-person voting, in-person voting, and (blank) _______.

What is absentee voting or voting by mail?

400

2020 marks this birthday milestone for Social Security

What is 85 years?

400

This part of Medicare covers inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing facility care, and home health services.

What is Medicare Part A

400

This industry annually spends nearly $175 million for lobbying and more than $6 billion on advertising.

Who is the pharmaceutical industry?

400

On average in 2019, it costs $102,204 annually for a private room in one of these facilities.

What is a nursing home?

400

Steps to take to ensure your absentee ballot is not rejected.

What is signing and dating the absentee ballot? What is mailing the absentee ballot early?

500

One out of every four households relies on Social Security for _________ % or more of their income.

What is 90%?

500

This government website allows you to research, compare, and enroll in a Medicare plan.

500

In 2019 alone, AARP fought hard on this issue and saw successes with 26 state legislatures passing 40 bills that AARP supported.

What is lowering prescription drug prices?

500

Family caregivers provide this, it has an estimated value of $470 billion annually.

What is unpaid care to loved ones?

500

AARP’s voting website aarp.org/2020elections/Michigan is available to help you find this information.

What is how to locate my polling place? What is how to get a mail-ballot? What is how vote?

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