is a 60 year old widow receiving widows social security servivors benefits eligible for medicare?
Answer Charlotte, I am afraid not. The only way she would be eligible for Medicare is if she were drawing disability payments on her late husband. If she is eligible for SS disability benefits on her her late husband’s record, then she would be eligible after a two year waiting period from the time she began to draw. But if I am reading your email correctly, then she is not eligible–she probably just started drawing the benefits since she turned sixty and is not disabled. I am sorry I did not have better news for you.
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