Hearing Aid Stimulus – Wow! What’s this all about?
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 – 1 Comments
Over the last couple of days we’ve had a number of calls from patients asking about the new “hearing aid stimulus.” Hearing aid stimulus? It was news to us. After a bit of investigation, it appears as if some ads are popping up, primarily in newspapers, about a special discount as part of a “hearing aid stimulus?”
Well as much as we’d like good old Uncle Sam to help our patients out with the cost of hearing aids, it seems this is too good to be true. Nothing we can find in the stimulus package (you can read all about it here) pertains to hearing aids. Unfortunately some retailers like to stretch the truth a bit.
What we can tell you is that there seems to be progress on a hearing aid tax credit. Legislation has been reintroduced to provide a $500 per hearing aid tax credit every five years for the purchase of hearing aids. It would apply those 55 and older. You can read more details here. Please write to your Congress representative in support of this legislation.
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