Pat Holthoff

Posted on 8/06/09

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Last year, the Arkansas Insurance Department/Senior Health
Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) started a Student
Volunteer Program. We trained students in 10 schools (164
students) to navigate the Medicare.gov website in order to
help Medicare beneficiaries compare Medicare Prescription
Drug Plans durning Medicare Open Enrollment (November 15 -
December 31). We worked with the FBLA and EAST students.
This year, we already have 16 schools signed-up to
participate. That means we are going to train over 500
students in Arkansas to do this. We need your help! Each
school that participates will hold a Medicare Open
Enrollment Event in their community. You can not believe
how useful this is to the Medicare beneficiaries in
Arkansas and they are so grateful.

The training takes from 4 to 6 hours and we provide all of
the training materials. Then, we would like for you to
volunteer to attend the event. We already have a couple
of retired teachers that are going to help us this year.
We will hold a training for all of the teachers that will
volunteer. Then, you will be ready to train the students.

There are over 500,000 Medicare beneficiaries in the State
of Arkansas. There are six people in our division. You
may go to www.insurance.arkansas.gov and click on Senior
Health to read more. (We can reimburse you for travel at
the State rate.) Please help. This is such a benefit to
the students as well of the beneficiaries! It's really
wonderful to see them working together.

Pat Holthoff

Arkansas Insurance Department

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