Medicare provides you with different notices that help determine if you qualify for assistance.
- **Purple notice**: This means you automatically qualify for Extra Help.
- **Yellow notice**: This means you automatically qualify for Extra Help because you qualify for Medicare and Medicaid and get benefits through Original Medicare. You will be automatically enrolled in a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan.
- **Social Security Outreach Notice**: This means you might be eligible for a Medicare Savings Plan and Extra Help with prescriptions.
- **SSI award letter**: A notice that you have been awarded Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) can be used as proof to obtain Extra Help.
If you live in an institution or get home- and community-based assistance, you will qualify for Extra Help.