Should a change of address be notified to the Social Security office?
Sure, but a lot of people don't understand rome wasent built in a day, a lot of people don't have enough time to run out immediately to social security just to change address, like if you're moving to another state to try living with a boyfriend to see if he really loves you enough to live there, well you have to spend weeks with him just to make sure because you don't know if you'll really end up moving completely, my mom still gets my mail back home so its cool, but what happens for the people who are on ssi and move to another state for love and then after you changed adress 2 months later your boyfriend tells you to get lost, excatly you are forced to go back home on something that was really meant for vacation because you didn't know your boyfriend was going to waste your time and energy like that, so you need time before you make it official to the social security office, by the way when I was in california I had to go up to the social security office 4 times just to change my address because they would lie to my face and say they updated my address and never really did, wasting my time, so to that other person yes it is painful to go through social security, its a fucking nightmare and they are rude and don't care and don't do their jobs and then blame the victim
Can you hold off on receiving Medicare while receiving Social Security payments?
Nope, at least where Medicare Part A (the part that covers hospitalization and inpatient services ) is concerned. If you've applied for a retirement or survivor benefit and you reach age 65, or if you've been receiving Social Security disability benefits for at least 24 months, you automatically receive Part A on a premium-free basis (because if you get a Social Security benefit, that means there's enough work credits on the record for the person to qualify for Medicare, as well). The upside to this is that you don't pay anything for Part A until you actually start using it (it's premium-free, remember?), so you can tuck away the Medicare card until you need it.As for Part B, which covers outpatient services and doctor/clinic visits, that's optional; if you receive a Medicare card with both Part A and Part B entitlement, you can send the card back and request that the Part B entitlement be removed, which means you won't have to pay the monthly premium for Part B.Some folks who receive retirement benefits do this intentionally, since they have health coverage through their job or their spouse's job; they can contact Social Security later soon after the work-based coverage ends, and sign up to receive Part B starting later, but at the standard premium rate.If you don't have work-based coverage, it's not a good idea to pass on Part B. After the initial enrolment period for Medicare ends (that's the 3 months prior to the month you qualify to three months after), the next time you can sign up for Part B is during the general enrollment period, which goes from January through March. Part B won't start until the following July, and you'll have to pay 10% extra in premiums for every 12 months you could have been covered by Medicare but weren't. Like any other insurance, that's done to discourage people from not filing until they get sick and need it - if everybody did that, Medicare and other forms of insurance would go broke from covering nobody but sick people.My advice is to keep the Medicare coverage - Social Security will deduct the Part B premium from your benefit, and you'll have it ready when (notice I said WHEN, not IF) you need it.
If you are already on Social Security disability, do you have to file for an SSI retirement at the age of 65?
If you receive SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance), your benefits will automatically convert to Social Security retirement benefits once you reach your full retirement age (which is no longer 65 if you were born after 1937). Your full retirement age starts to increase if you were born after 1937 and is now age 67 if you were born in 1960 or later. You can find out your full retirement age here: Retirement Age CalculatorSSI stands for Supplemental Security Income and is a welfare benefit for people who are disabled and haven't worked long enough to reach “insured” status, or for people aged 65 and older who also don’t quality for Social Security retirement benefits. It is a completely separate program.If you currently receive SSDI, you don’t want to switch to Social Security retirement benefits before your full retirement age, or your benefits will most likely be permanently reduced. People can apply for early retirement benefits starting at age 62, but the earlier you apply, the less money you will receive. If you currently receive SSDI, you don't have to do anything once you reach your full retirement age. Your benefits will automatically switch from SSDI to retirement benefits.
Will a person who has never worked get social security retirement?
They could receive a spouse's benefit at age 62 or a widow/widower's benefit at age 60. If divorced they must have been married for ten years. A note about disability. A person must have worked 5 out of the past ten years before becoming disabled in order to collect social security disability benefits if age 30 or older. At age 22 they must have worked 1 1/2 years out of the past 3 before becoming disabled. The number of years worked then increases to the 5 out of 10 PLUS they must be what is called fully insured as well. There is a federal welfare program for the blind, disabled or aged (65+) - it is called SSI which stands for supplemental security income. Although managed by social security it is NOT a social security program because benefits are paid out of general tax revenues - not the social security trust fund.
Can you work and also be on social security disability?
If you work will your ssd be reduced?Lets say you are 33. Years old. much can you make from working before your ssd is reduced? Lets say your Ssd check is for 863 a month.
Is it true that they give Social Security checks to immigrants over 65 even though they didn't contribute to Social Security?
I retired from DSHS, where new citizens, often under the refugee program, would apply for their elderly relatives, again usually parents, to be allowed permanent residence in the USA, agreeing to sponsor their relatives (sponsoring means they will support these people so the taxpayer doesn’t have to) I imagine the ethnicity doesn’t matter, just varies per location, but our office had a huge amount of Koreans living in Tacoma. As soon as their parents were granted permanent residency as sponsored relatives & arrived here by plane, they’d bring their parents in to the office, saying they’d been laid off work & couldn’t afford to sponsor their parents. The two alternatives were shipping the parents back to their mother country, at our expense, which is what we should do, or, as the elderly claimed no assets or income, apply for SSI, Social Security Supplemental Income, paid for by the Social Security Administration from the SSA Trust Fund, which they’d automatically be eligible for because of age, and open them up on SSI-related Medicaid (same Medicaid as children but classed as SSI-related as the reason) Then the elderly couple or (if only one parent) single parent would apply for food stamps with their adult children SWEARING & signing under penalty of perjury that their parent(s) purchased & prepared their food separately, which everyone knew was a lie because no family had two rice pots going at the same time. The next day the firm that laid off the adult children would miraculously hire them back & the elderly parents would receive SSI cash benefits as well as free full medical incl prescriptions for the rest of their life. Once someone is on “aged SSI” they are on for life UNLESS THEY WIN THE LOTTO, AND BECOME ASSET INELIGIBLE FOR SSI.
I am under 65, receive SSI due to my permanent disability but I'm short 4 work credits. Am I eligible to receive Medicare benefits due to my 63-year-old spouse's work credits?
“However, if you don't have enough credits you may qualify for premium-free Part A services on the work record of your spouse, provided that you are 65 or older and your spouse is at least 62. In some circumstances, you may qualify on the work record of a spouse who is dead or divorced. “Medicare Options for People With Less Work ExperiencePatricia Barry is a senior editor for AARP Integrated Media and the author of “Medicare For Dummies” (Wiley/AARP, October 2013) That was a 2014 answer. So I suspect you WILL be at 65, but depending on when you turn 65, the law could be different (but they may “grandfather” people who are over a certain age in any case). I would call Medicare and ask. As you have SSI I would assume you are on Medicaid. If not, then perhaps ask them if you can apply for SSDI which would give you Medicare after a long wait period (24 months) after the first SSDI check. You MAY be able to qualify for that. Medicare is making quite a few changes recently so if you don’t call THEM it’s possible the info others provide will be out-of-date.UPDATE: Given that you are on SSI and NOT on SSDI which would have entitled you to Medicare, you will need to call them to find out if you could obtain Medicare prior to age 65. I suspect the answer is no because you should have Medicaid with SSI. Yes far fewer doctors take Medicaid than Medicare so it’s not necessarily as helpful of a program to you. Not sure of your age but unless you are substantially younger than your 63-year-old husband it could be that there is no practical way for you to obtain Medicare earlier than age 65 because I believe as SSI and SSDI are two completely different programs that you would face the two year waiting period AFTER being on SSDI to obtain Medicare. The only way to get the info you need is to call the people who have all the information at their fingertips. The site does not address the issue of whether SSI COULD be credited towards the Medicare wait time that comes under SSDI. Unless you work in that area it would be difficult to say if they have covered that unusual situation in their rules.
Have you ever had your supplemental security income (SSI) benefits cut off? If yes, what was the reason given for the decision to stop payments?
If you get Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the SSA checks in every 3-7 years to confirm your disability status. They do this to determine whether your condition/symptoms got better, worse, or stayed the same. If the SSA decides you’re no longer too disabled to work (under current requirements), they stop your monthly payments. Legally, they have to perform a Continuing Disability Review (CDR)every three years. If doctors say your medical condition will not improve, they’ll still review your case every seven years until you’re 65.But once you turn 65 years old, these CDRs automatically stop. There’s a few reasons why this happens. After your 65th birthday, your age alone qualifies you for SSI. And if you’re on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, the CDRs stop at your full retirement age. This typically happens when you turn 65 or 66 years old, depending on your birth year. Once you reach that magical milestone, your SSDI payments automatically convert to regular Social Security retirement benefits.Got this information from here: Does the SSA Confirm Your Disability Status? How? When?