Pain killers, Social Security & Drug company

[FireFox1973]

I have to laugh or I will cry. Hubby & I both on disability. A few months back before Medicare part d, hubby had no drug insurance nore did I and he had a transplant and me back surgery so we take a lot of pills. After lots of time, I got all of our pills from the drug companies. Trust me it was a full time job for 4 months, you constantly have to be on top of them.
My main painkilleers, Ultracet, always got messed up from the company. I would not get it in time or not get enough. Since they are a painkiller, they go right to my doctors office.
Now that we have medicaid too, not only is the Ultracet arriving monthly, I get double the pills! I have called them times to explain that I am on medicaid now& to please stop sending, send them to someone else. But, they always say I am canceled but still they come. I have asked my doctor if any of her other patients can use it, but she told me they can not do that. I have so much, I do not know what to do with them. I must have 20 bottles of 100 pills.

Of course, we got a call the other day saying that Social Security overpaid our lump sum money for our kids and we owe $2002.00. They are going to take 600.00 a month untid paid. I do not know what I am going to do w/o that money for 3 months. These stupid pills are over $200.00 a bottle. Wish I could sell them all for $25.00 a bottle and get back they money ssd will be taking!

Thanks for listening! :confused:

[cstarlight]

My son had an over payment once of over 2 thousand $ and they were gonna withhold 350$ of that monthly till it was paid back so i called SS and told them of the hardship it would cause.....they dropped it down to $35 a month to be withheld. You should & need to call them, they are normally very easy to work with.

[ajksmom]

You should definetly call and explain to them the hardship taking that much a month would cause for you. My mom did this when they overpaid her and they only took something like $60 a month, of course it will take alot longer to pay back but it would be better for you in the long run...good luck.

[FireFox1973]

Thanks Cstarlight and Ajksmom! I will call and see what is going on since they never called us back. Of course, whenever we have gotten back money from them, the money appears in our account and a week later we get the letter telling us we would receive it soon. They are not exactly on the ball! Thanks at least I have a glimmer of hope now! :o

[ajksmom]

I hope you got it worked out. They used to do that to my mom ALL the time, she doesn't get it anymore though. And if there is a Medicine Shoppe near you someone told my mom that they will take meds. provided that they are good to distribute to the needy although I don't personally know this. Also call local free clinic or health dept. maybe they can use them.