Extra Help and Medicare Savings Program Screen
Screens for Extra Help and the Medicare Savings Programs.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Marital status
- Single, or married and not living together
- Where the person lives
- The 48 contiguous states and DC
- Monthly unearned income
- 1500 USD
- Countable resources
- 5000 USD
- Some resources set aside for burial
- No
- Year
- 2026
Result: Likely qualifies for SLMB and, with it, Extra Help: counted income $1,480.00 a month.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Marital status
- Where the person lives
- Monthly unearned income (Social Security, pensions)
- Monthly earned income (wages)
- Countable resources
- Some resources set aside for burial
- Dependent relatives living in the home
- Year (blank for this year)
How this is calculated
Citation
SSA POMS HI 00815.023 (TN 64): 2026 QMB, SLMB and QI limits at 100%, 120% and 135% of poverty plus $20, resources $9,950 / $14,910; 42 CFR 423.773: Extra Help below 150%; CMS CY2026 LIS memo: resources $16,590 / $33,100. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.