Social Security Disability and medicare eligibility.

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Hi all:

Anyone who receives Social Security Disability is eligible for

medicare two years after their official date of disability. But

remember, you forfeit the first five months anyway.

This is an example:

I got sick on July 3, 1997. SS agreed my date of disability was

July 3, 1997. After the five months that they take away, that took

the date to December of 1997. I didn't apply for SS until October

30, 1998....a year and three months after I got sick. I was

approved on November 17, 1998 and got my back pay on December 1,

1998 (30 days from the time I actually applied), my medicare started

January 1, 2000 which was two years from my disability date minus

the five months. So from the time I received my back pay in

December 1998, it was 13 months and my Medicare started.

I hope I didn't confuse anybody. Long story short here, it is two

years and five months from the official date of disability

regardless of how long you wait to apply.

Kaye