Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

FREE HEARING AIDS

Feb 05, 2003

Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:38:43 -0800
From: " Anne R. Cohen"
Subject: Fw: FREE HEARING AIDS

> This information was kindly provided by Todd Wood, of Region II
> Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.
>
> HEAR Now is a private, non-profit organization that provides hearing
> aids for adults and children who are legal residents of the United
> States, who are deaf or hard of hearing and who have limited income.
> HEAR Now is a provider of last resort. All other options for service
> must be used before benefit can be approved. Services are distributed
> through a nationwide network of hearing professionals. Providers are
> asked to waive fitting and follow-up fees for the first year of
> warranty coverage. Clients pay for their hearing evaluations and
> plus a non-refundable HEAR Now processing fee of $39 per aide. The
> organization provided more than 7,800 hearing aides to people in need
> last year.
>
> Eligibility requirements: Applicants must be legal residents of the
> United States and must meet financial criteria. They must be
> low-income people who are considered to be at 125 % of poverty level
> (about $11,080 a year or $ 923 per month). HEAR Now also requires an
> asset assessment.
>
> HEAR Now also collects old hearing aids for recycling. Donated aides
> should be packaged and mailed. Donations are tax deductible and will
> be acknowledged. Used hearing aides are returned to manufacturers for
> refurbishing and are then sold by the manufacturers as refurbished
> aides. The proceeds from these sales are donated back to the Hear
Now
> program. People that qualify to receive hearing aides receive NEW
> aides and NOT the refurbished ones.
>
> Hours of operation are 9-4 (central time), Monday through Friday.
Call
> for applications. Area Served: United States and Territories.
>
> For more information or applications, contact:
>
> HEAR NOW
> Juanita Stelter, Program Director
> 6700 Washington Ave. S.
> Eden Prairie Minneapolis, MN 55344
> 1-800-328-8602 ext. 2358
> Fax: (952) 828-6946
> nonprofit@starkey.com