{"id":20214,"date":"2022-09-12T13:16:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20214"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:59:53","slug":"while-inflation-takes-a-toll-on-seniors-billions-of-dollars-in-benefits-go-unused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20214","title":{"rendered":"While Inflation Takes a Toll on Seniors, Billions of Dollars in Benefits Go Unused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of older adults are having trouble making ends meet, especially during these inflationary times. Yet many don\u2019t realize help is available, and some notable programs that offer financial assistance are underused. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/while-inflation-takes-a-toll-on-seniors-billions-of-dollars-in-benefits-go-unused\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/while-inflation-takes-a-toll-on-seniors-billions-of-dollars-in-benefits-go-unused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a non profit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry <br>J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News Millions of older adults are having trouble making ends meet, especially during these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,15],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-20214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20215,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20214\/revisions\/20215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}