(Hershey) -- More than 30,000 senior citizens enrolled in the state’s prescription drug benefit programs won’t see their eligibility kiboshed by cost of living adjustment increases in their Social Security payments. It was a ceremonial bill signing. Governor Corbett had already approved the bill to preserve the eligibility of elders enrolled in the state’s PACE and PACENET programs. The governor was at a retirement community in Hershey, Dauphin County, to speak about the bill to an audience of older adults and to the glowing reviews of former Democratic Governor George Leader. Corbett says the law will save those older adults from being knocked into a donut-hole situation. "And because Social Security provides cost of living adjustments we found that some senior citizens in the past were at risk of being disqualified from PACE," he says. "Because they were keeping up with inflation, the law would have had them fall behind in their health care. And that’s just not right. It won’t do." Governor Corbett says the bill passed with bipartisan support. State Secretary of Aging Brian Duke says PACE and PACENET are model programs. On average, they cover about $2,400 in prescription costs for each enrollee, annually.