I have an elderly Medicare patient who has prostrate cancer. His social security check is $375.00 per month and he is widowed. A number of years ago he bought this little house from an IRS foreclosure and did the work to make it livable. He rents it for $500.00 a month and uses that $500.00 to supplement his $375.00 monthly. Still $875. a month is not a lot to live on. Of course this house is not his residence. He was turned down on the LIS and simply can’t afford his medicines even with plan D. Does the fact that this house cannot be liquidated quickly affect the granting of the LIS. He can’t sell the house. The meds he is on are not available to Medicare eligible patients.



