I Was Recently Awarded SSD, When Do I Get Medicare?

When you receive Social Security Disability benefits (SSD) you automatically become eligible for Medicare two years from the date you become eligible for benefits.

For example, you receive your Notice of Award in June, 2011 with your onset date determined to be May, 2009. Due to the five month waiting period, you are eligible for benefits as of October, 2009. Under SSD rules you will automatically be eligible for Medicare two years from the date you first started receiving SSD benefits, you will be eligible for Medicare as of October, 2011.

To see what benefits are available through Medicare, check out Medicare.gov

Note: If you have been awarded SSI but you are not eligible for SSD then you will not receive Medicare, you will be eligible for Medicaid.