Too Sick to Work? Need Health Care? Take a Number
Shalonda Frederick and John McClain became too sick to work and began receiving Social Security disability checks but then found out that they had to wait two years for health care coverage through Medicare to kick in. McClain built machine parts but had to stop working when he found out that a lump on his neck turned out to be cancer. Frederick managed a bakery but had to stop working because of multiple sclerosis. The two began receiving payments through Social Security disability but were then told that they had to wait two years for health care coverage through Medicare.
The reason for the two year waiting period is mandated by federal law. It states that disabled workers have to wait a period of 24 months before they can begin receiving benefits. These two cases are not the only ones across the country today. There are roughly 1.8 million disabled workers languishing in limbo at any given time and about one in eight dies while waiting. For any individual receiving social security payments but is waiting for their Medicare to kick in, contact the law offices of Kazmierczak Law for expert legal counsel today.