Susan2 says social workers help her access programs to pay for drugs.
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Right now, my retirement fund though runs out about August or September. So I have to carry my medications to the end of the year. But again, social workers and people have helped to say, why don’t you try over here. There’s a program over here, and you know, to help put it together and take the burden off of the financial parts, because some of these are getting expensive.
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