Grants for Smart Drives or Active-Height seat elevators

United Spinal and the Permobil Foundation have partnered to offer United Spinal members the opportunity to apply for a Roll Forward grant of either a Smart Drive or a Active-Height seat elevator on a new Permobil wheelchair order. Awards are limited and will be given based on financial need.

Obviously, you must already have insurance or medicaid/Medicare willing to buy you a new wheelchair, but this can help if you have that and can demonstrate financial need.  Joining United Spinal is quite easy, free, and can be done online.  

Manual chair users who have medicare can usually get the Smart Drive anyway, so I suspect this is more geared to private insurance users.  Anyway, the process for applying is simple and explained here:


www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-spinal-association--permobil-foundation-partner-to-offer-life-enhancing-wheelchair-technology-through-roll-forward-grant-300855824.html

 You must be approved for the grant before your chair is ordered.