Thread: "You can't cancel Medicare Part A without cancelling ALL SSDI benefits"
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Fresia
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Default Sep 24, 2014 at 05:14 AM
 
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Originally Posted by JoeS21 View Post
Thanks Fresia. I looked into this by calling Medicare. Medicare said that if there's no delay and if they are not at all backed up, July 2015 would be the soonest I could get re-enrolled.

Their reason why is that while open enrollment begins in January, anyone who CANCELS has an additional 6 month waiting period before coverage kicks in. They do NOT care if you cancelled due to receiving inaccurate information or incomplete information as I did.
I would mark it on my calendar for date with Medicare on Jan 1st then. It must be the medicare supplements/companion plans that the enrollment is in November then. Sorry about that. . At least you can pick it back up next year though. Perhaps there is an individual policy you can pick up meanwhile to supplement it? I would call around or go online for plan information and rates. Hang in there meanwhile.

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Thanks for this!
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