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Free Medicare Info Sessions Planned

Seniors seeking information about Medicare programs can find help in Sioux Falls this week for free. Area Medicare experts are holding meetings to educate seniors and their families about the intricacies of the program. The sessions are geared toward people will all levels of Medicare knowledge.

Free seminars in Sioux Falls seek to inform people about Medicare rights, options, and benefits. Dan Kurtz with Kurtz and Associates in Sioux Falls says some people have specific questions about different parts of the program.

"We have other people that are just completely overwhelmed with the whole thing. They receive stuff in the mail and phone calls and stacks of books, and it’s so overwhelming for them they don’t understand any of it," Kurtz says.

Kurtz welcomes seniors currently on Medicare, people nearing age 65, and family members helping aging people navigate finances and medical decisions. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and runs about an hour. It’s held at the Sioux Falls Public Library’s Caille branch on 49th Street.

More Medicare Information sessions are scheduled through the end of the year. Those happen on the first and third Tuesdays each month.

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