Great news that you were approved for SSD! Also, if I understand your question correctly, if you had a lawyer, the back pay all goes to the lawyer and they pay you your portion.

Unless you are 65 or over it takes 18 months for Medicare to kick in. At least that was our experience.

this is wonderful AnnNY....that check probably will come to the lawyers office I would think...they give it to them to give to you if I am correct...because they want to make sure the lawyer gets paid...at least when I won a law suit once my lawyer got the check...then I got my check from him....so I would assume they will send notice when they get it at the lawyers office because they need your signature...

Merry Christmas!!! Woot woot....happy New Year too! Yeay to Medicare also that is such good great groovey news!!!

SPtrout that is not the amount of time before medicare kicks in....it is two years...24months...from date of disability....and it takes into consideration the backdate of the disability if you were given it for date before the decision was made...like your decision is July and they back date to when you applied in April a year before...they will consider valid for Medicare the April year before then 24months from that date....

that is also happens to be the date of the lump sum amount starting to accumulate....

Great to hear, that will take a lot of worry out of your life.
As for your brother, sounds kind of like my brother...

It says the the Medicare that pertains to doctors starts this month, but the hospital insurance starts in February. Now I have to figure out the part C & D--but one step at a time.

I don't have the card or even the letter yet.

I just kept checking the internet. I was sort of confused when I saw it said disability.

Hi Bill,
"SPtrout that is not the amount of time before medicare kicks in....it is two years...24months...from date of disability"

My wife's delay was 18 months, but I no longer remember the details. However, since she applied months after she left her job, the math may have been exactly as you describe.

Thanks, Steve

AnnNY....you can apply for extra help for the medications if your income is low income...I get it...they set me up so I pay $2.65 for most meds and major name brands are $6.65....call and ask for an application for Extra Help with Medications...they may send the application anyway....just fill in the numbers that are available and it will save you troubles with part D....

No, that's not the way it should work. When I was approved for my disability, the check came to me first. From the lump sum, I had to pay my lawyer fee. But I am in NJ, so maybe it's different in different states.

My lawyer got her check and then SS put my portion in my bank account. As far as the Medicare goes, I was offered Medicare about 6 months later so about 2 years from my disability date. I didn't take it because my husbands insurance was better and I was told I couldn't have both. So happy for you! And at Christmas none the less!

Glad to hear you will be getting help now.

n2braves,

"As far as the Medicare goes, I was offered Medicare about 6 months later so about 2 years from my disability date. I didn't take it because my husbands insurance was better and I was told I couldn't have both. So happy for you! And at Christmas none the less!"

You were lucky to be given an option. When my wife received SSD she was on my employer's insurance, but they dropped her the day that her Medicare became effective; no option allowed. Oddly, my former employer (a big company based in the Chicago area) knew about her getting SSD/Medicare before we did here in Texas. We got a "your out" letter almost the same day/week/month (I do not remember for sure) as we got her official letter from SSA.

Thanks everyone again.

I just opened my checking account this morning and there it is.

Ironically, I just finished my paperwork for food stamps and my housing. Last night is the are giving me par b before part a. Oh well, I haven't even received the letter, so I'll have to go little by little.

Wow ther is a sentence that I don't even know what I meant to say.

I'm on Medicaid now, but I have a lot of debt. I have an appointment today and Monday.

I was trying to read through Medicare, and I was getting an anxiety attack. Everything is supposed to be roses now that there is some money in my bank account!!

sptrout,

My husband owns his own business. Do you suppose that's why the insurance didn't automatically boot me out? I have received a few letters from Blue Cross about my secondary insurance because they think I have Medicare. Blue Cross told me that I should be using Medicare as a secondary but Medicare says no. It would be awesome to have a secondary insurance again. I always had one for 23 years til I had to take SSDI. Hardly ever had to pay out of pocket. Boy, those days are gone!