KittenClaws wrote:
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Anybody that gets SocSec before turning 65 gets signed up for Medicare automatically; it happens a few months before they turn 65 and they send the medicare cards.
I did the SocSec sign up online, but went to someone to get signed up for drugs plan D and gap (pays the 20% medicare doesn’t) plan G.
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Sure enough, BUT you must get part b and your supplements prior to the 65th or there is penalty.”
Right, and I had gotten the parts A and B automatically before 65 (around early Oct last year) and then shortly thereafter in late Oct had a medicare specialist sign me up for the part D and G.
Sounds pretty complicated.
Sure enough, BUT you must get part b and your supplements prior to the 65th or there is penalty.
I believe the penalty is 10% of part b cost. Currently about 18.00