Posts Tagged ‘Medicare’

If you are wondering whether you will get Medicare or Medicaid with Social Security, it all depends on the type of Social Security you receive.

Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) comes with Medicare.
Social Security Supplemental Security Income (SSI) comes with Medicaid.

What’s the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
The Colorado Bar Association has a great page discussing [...]

If you win your claim for Social Security disability insurance (SSDI), you are also eligible to receive Medicare benefits. But, you don’t get Medicaid right away, with some exceptions, you have to be “in pay status” for 24 months before you become eligible for Medicaid.
That means you have to be receiving 24 months of Social [...]

Social Security attorney Gordon Gates wrote about a Social Security Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) who only approves 11 percent of cases.
In trying to find some insight in to how this ALJ could only approve 11% of cases when most other ALJs approve somewhere between 45-60% of cases, Gordon found the following post from the ALJ [...]