LaydeeBug primitive wants to avoid pitfalls

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1261218

Oh my.

This is kind of old, but interesting.

LaydeeBug (7,836 posts)     Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:10 PM

So I need to get my Dad registered for Social Security and need help with this
 
Like the parts, and what I need to do. I know the deadline is December 7th.

He fell at work and the plant closed while his claim was still going, and we are in the end processes of that, my point being that he no longer has his union-got health insurance that he had for many years. We are really feeling kinda lost in all this quagmire. lol

While I am green on this matter, I promise to be tenacious regarding any advice anyone has.

I am very interested in avoiding pitfalls, if I can help it. 

SheilaT (23,156 posts)      Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:14 PM

1. Go to www.ssa.gov
 
It will walk you through it. If you're not crazy about doing it on-line, do you live in or near a city with a social security office?

But the on-line thing is designed to be very user friendly.

Or do you mean Medicare? If so, that I already know is incredibly easy to do. Again, www.ssa.org and you'll have no trouble.

LaydeeBug (7,836 posts)      Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:17 PM

3. Thank you so much. I don't even know whether he needs or gets Medicare at all
 
I am in a city so I am pretty sure there will be an office. I guess I will make my way there this week and see if I can find the what for.

brush (10,384 posts)      Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:50 PM

6. The SS office people will be helpful

Make sure you have your father's important documents — like driver's license, Social Security card or his SS number, birth certificate if possible, passport maybe, work related papers.

They'll help you through it.

He's automatically eligible for Medicare if he's 65. They'll get him insured with that too. Be sure to get Part B as well as Part A.

DURHAM D (24,358 posts)     Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:57 PM

7. How old is he?
 
It is not clear if you are asking about Medicare or SS. 

LaydeeBug (7,836 posts)      Tue Nov 19, 2013, 07:59 PM

8. 68.

DURHAM D (24,358 posts)      Tue Nov 19, 2013, 08:01 PM

9. So SS because he is already on Medicare.
 
I did it on the phone and it took just a few minutes.

ETA: Perhaps his employer enrolled him in Medicare Advantage, not regular Medicare. I gather that his employer will no longer be participating in the process so you do need to find out which insurance company he was with. Look in his billfold for a card. 

[Delmar]

he no longer has his union-got health insurance that he had for many years. We are really feeling kinda lost in all this quagmire. lol

Let me mansplain something to this ditzy woman.  Her story about his fall at work and all the rest is probably all bullshit, but I wouldn't call it something to laugh out loud about.  That's what lol stands for:  Laugh out loud.  I would only laugh about something like that if it happened to an actual primitive and then I would laugh out loud.

[ChuckJ]

They require driver's licenses and birth certificates? Doesn't such a requirement call for a dem protest?


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