By Alabama Public Radio
Undated – Beginning Friday, Alabama's senior citizens will have two more weeks to get 600 dollars from Medicare. The money would come through the program's drug discount card program. After December 31st, the program's 2005 cycle will begin, and seniors will NO longer be able to collect the 2004 benefit amount. Nationwide, only five-point-eight million of the more than 34 million eligible seniors have signed up for the cards.