When looking for Medicare plan options and advice, who should you talk to?
Seek help from local, trained and licensed professionals that you trust. It’s important to review your options and make educated decisions based on your individual needs. Too often people seek advice from “friends” or they listen to confusing advertisements. Every person is different, and every person should not select the same plan. It needs to be based on their individual needs. Those needs-based conversations can be had with a local person.
Jennifer Wesselman-Conz
Agent/Owner
A lot of information about Medicare can be found online, but there can also be circumstances and scenarios where the internet can’t supplement the advice of an expert. “Things can change in your life and that might be a time that you need to make changes or adjustments to your Medicare Supplement, Prescription Plans or Medicare Advantage Plans,” says Jennifer Wesselman-Conz, State Farm Insurance Agency owner and agent. “You want to have someone that you trust to work through those changes and give you accurate and helpful advice.”
People often look to their insurance agent for help making the right decision on coverages for personal insurance like auto, home and life insurance. However, Wesselman-Conz says there are many customers who want help with the Medicare process but don’t know where to get it. “They trust us with their personal insurance needs and when I explain I am able to help with the(Medicare) process, they are grateful,” she says.
For Wesselman-Conz, the most rewarding aspect of this role is being able to relieve some uncertainties after people retire. “They shouldn’t be stressing over making wrong decisions that financially impact them … they should be enjoying their retirement years knowing they made the right decision for their individual situation,” she says. “I know in my heart I made a difference and I am paying it forward. We all will be there someday, and we need good, honest and educated people to help those in need now and in the future.”
