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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 971
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 971
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In order to qualify for Medicare, you need to have been a Social Security disability beneficiary for 24 months. That means that you have been receiving checks. It does not go back to your date of disability, I don't think.
~ Faith
Quote:
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/...hp?p_faqid=400
Before age 65, you are eligible for Medicare hospital insurance if you:
- get Social Security disability benefits and have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's) disease; or
- have been a Social Security disability beneficiary for 24 months; or
- have worked long enough in a federal, state, or local government job and you meet the requirements of the Social Security disability program.
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aka MamaBug
Symptoms since 01/2002; Dx with MS: 10/2003; Back in limbo, then re-dx w/ MS: 07/2008
Betaseron 11/2003-08/2008; Copaxone 09/2008-present
Began receiving SSDI 11/2008
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