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to set up a monthly payment based on due. Contact 410-819-4484 for more
your usage approximately two years information on these programs.
ago, and you pay the same amount Winter brings respiratory illness and
Spot When participating in MEAP, be sure here’s a reminder that RSV (Respiratory
Senior each month.
Syncytial Virus) is highly contagious.
you read your entire bill, particularly
cough or sneeze contacting your
when reading your Delmarva Power Droplets from an infected person’s
Senior Moments bills. Th e first page of your electric bill eyes nose or mouth will infect you.

will read that you owe nothing, zero, Touching surfaces with the virus on it
by Mary Moran
zip, because the MEAP grant tells the like a doorknob, bathroom faucet, or
410-479-2535 or 410-490-3078
billing computer that you have this big shopping cart, then touching your face
Mother nature has been playing games credit. However, one must read the 2nd before washing your hands spreads the
with Caroline County this Winter! and 3rd pages to see the amount you virus easily, both at home or in public
One day it feels like a balmy 50 degree are supposed to contribute as part of places.
Spring Day, and the next it’s 30 degrees the budget billing plan and understand
with 20+ mile per hour winds! The the actual cost of the electricity you are Symptoms include runny nose, decrease
Farmer’s Almanac is calling for the using. It is extremely important to pay in appetite, coughing, sneezing, fever,
Mid Atlantic Corridor to experience 5 the agreed amount monthly. If you do and wheezing. RSV can be serious and
degrees below average for March, so the not pay your share of the balance billing run longer than a week or two. It can
question is what is your heat source? agreement, you could blow through lead to shortness of breath and low
the MEAP grant money during the oxygen levels. RSV can lead to other
Th e Offi ce of Home Energy Programs heavy usage winter months and be back worsening medical conditions such as

(OHEP)off ers financial assistance with to owing large amounts during high asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary
home heating bills. “Payments are made usage summer months. If you have any disease (COPD) making it hard to
to fuel suppliers and utility companies questions, call your electric company breath, or congestive heart failure,
on the customer’s behalf. Energy for an explanation of your share of the when the heart can’t pump enough
assistance will not reduce the amount costs or contact MEAP for assistance at blood and oxygen to the body.
of any other assistance benefits you 410-829-4484.
receive…and it will not reduce Social The CDC recommends all adults 60
Security Benefi ts.” (dhsmaryland.gov) Those that live in townships may years and older get vaccinated. Th e RSV
Maryland Energy Assistance (MEAP) appreciate the Low-Income Household vaccine can be given at the same time as

helps with electric bills by paying a Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) other vaccines. Therefore, you can get

portion of the bill, with the customers to assist those experiencing hardship your seasonal flu shot or pneumonia
being placed on a budget billing plan with water bills. The program is vaccine at the same time as the RSV
to spread out annual utility bills. Th is designed to assist those who are behind vaccine. It takes about two weeks for
Electric Universal Service Program on their wastewater and drinking water protections to develop. Do know that
(EUSP) allows local utility companies bills that are 30 days or more past people who are moderately or severely
ill should wait until they recover before
TURNING 65? getting the RSV vaccine. Talk to your
doctor or pharmacist for information
on wait times.
Confused about all the Medicare Terms & Options?
Let Me Help You! As of September 6, 2023, your Medicare
prescription drug plan “D” began
paying in full for the RSV vaccine. It
Anthony Insurance Services is not too late to get your seasonal fl u
shot, which is covered by Medicare B
Ann M. Anthony two times per year. Since it is free it does
not apply to your annual deductible.

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