[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR418]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 418_MEDICARE SUBSIDIES--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D_Medicare Part D Subsidies
 
Sec.  418.3220  When is your application considered filed?

    (a) General rule. We consider an application for a subsidy as 
described in Sec.  418.3210 to be filed with us on the day it is 
received by either one of our employees at one of our offices or by one 
of our employees who is authorized to receive it at a place other than 
one of our offices or it is considered filed on the day it is submitted 
electronically through our Internet Web site. If a

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State Medicaid agency forwards to us a subsidy application that you gave 
to it, we will consider the date you submitted that application to the 
State Medicaid agency as the filing date. (See 42 CFR 423.774 for 
applications filed with a State Medicaid agency.)
    (b) Exceptions. (1) When we receive an application that is mailed, 
we will assume that we received it 5 days earlier (unless you can show 
us that you did not receive it within the 5 days) and use the earlier 
date as the application filing date if it would result in another month 
of subsidy eligibility.
    (2) We may consider an application to be filed on the date a written 
or oral inquiry about your subsidy eligibility is made, or the date we 
receive a partially completed Internet subsidy application from our 
Internet Web site where the requirements set forth in Sec.  418.3230 are 
met.