New Jersey Statutes 30:4D-21.5. Automatic enrollment in certain pharmaceutical assistance programs
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 30:4D-21.5
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
1. a. If a person who is a recipient of benefits under the “Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled,” or PAAD, program becomes ineligible for PAAD because the person’s income exceeds the program’s income eligibility limit and the person still remains eligible for the “Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program,” the person shall be enrolled automatically in the “Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.”
b. If a person who is a recipient of benefits under the “Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program” has a decrease in income that renders the person eligible for PAAD, the person shall automatically be enrolled in PAAD.
c. The Department of Human Services shall establish one application form for use in applying for the PAAD program and the “Senior Gold Prescription Discount Program.” The form shall provide for the inclusion of all information necessary to determine eligibility for both programs and advise applicants of the automatic enrollment provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section.
L.2009, c.272, s.1; amended 2012, c.17, s.384.