Medicare Medicare is the federal health
insurance program covering about 6 million people under age-65 with
permanent disabilities. People under 65 who receive Social
Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) payments generally become eligible
for Medicare after a two-year waiting period.
Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
Starting January 1, 2006, new
Medicare prescription drug coverage will be available to everyone with
Medicare. This drug coverage may help lower prescription drug costs and
help protect against higher costs in the future.
Medicare & You 2006
Booklet is now available for download in PDF at
http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/10050.pdf Social Security Disability Insurance
and Supplemental Security Income
www.ssa.gov
While these two programs are
different in many ways, both are administered by the Social Security
Administration and only individuals who have a disability and meet
medical criteria may qualify for benefits under either program.
Social Security
Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool for SSI & SSDIwww.ssa.gov/best
The Social Security Administration provides a simple web-based tool to
see if a child might be eligible for benefits. The Benefit Eligibility
Screening Tool (BEST) is a tool that you can use to find out if you
could be eligible for benefits from any of the programs
Social Security administers. This tool will give you eligibility
information based on answers you give to the questions on the
following pages; however, BEST is not an application for benefits.
