The AIDS Benefit Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Get Social Security, Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, Housing, Drugs and Other Benefits

"I know of no other publication that serves the function that this book provides. It is invaluable."―David Barr, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York
Persons with AIDS and with AIDS-Related Complex (ARC) must cope with pressing income and health needs. The U.S. social welfare system offers financial and health care benefits to disabled people, but its maze of programs is frustrating and difficult to understand.
This vitally important book is the first comprehensive, step-by-step guide to obtaining social welfare benefits for people with AIDS and ARC. The book discusses the programs that are available, from Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, and welfare to Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, housing, drugs, and hospital care. In each case it cuts through the complexities of the welfare system and summarizes in practical and concise terms what benefits are available, who is eligible for them, where and how to apply, how to appeal, and other key data. The handbook also contains state-by-state lists of resources and suggestions for program improvements.
The book is an essential reference not only for the one million people who are HIV-infected but also for every worker and agency that assists these individuals. It will also be helpful to needy, disabled, or elderly persons seeking access to similar benefits.

McCormack gives unflinchingly practical advice on how to get Social Security and disability benefits, Medicaid, AIDS drug AZT, food stamps, housing and foreclosure prevention, burial assistance, and other benefits. In the course of providing this concise, accessible, yet exhaustive information, he also manages to take some of the confusion out of that bureaucratic nightmare, the public benefit eligibility process. Hence, his handbook is invaluable not only for PWAs (persons with AIDS) but also for the poor, aged, and disabled and their advocates. This fills a great need and will be a required purchase for most public libraries as well as social welfare collections in agencies and other organizations.
- Judith Ean narino, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington,
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