01-04-2025, 10:03 PM
(01-04-2025, 04:04 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Today they said it was $300 because my mom is no longer covered.
Apparently Medicare disenrolled my mom, either in august or with the turn to 2025. I spent well over an hour on the phone with 4 different reps only to be told I must call the govt on Monday. So frustrating.
Ooh, that’s a fun one! My mom’s Medicare got cancelled one year because her CalPERS pension went up -$25/mo for a cost of living increase. These land in May and take a little while for SS to get wind of it. When they did, they sent her letters asking her to document the increase, but she didnt understand the letters and just filed them away for months. Eventually, she got a letter saying that since she didn’t respond to the previous letters, they were going to assume she was getting max income and dropped her SS benefit to the minimum which killed her medicare.
It took me forever to unravel that mess, partly because the SS refused to let me handle it on her behalf. I had to get on conference calls with SS, my mom and me. This is after waiting over an hour on hold and also before she got the new hearing aids… super challenging.
—tg