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Social Security & Medicare

PasadenaTrudy

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15. Thanks for all your help!!

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 06:59 PM

Sep 2013

Really, I do feel less stressed now. My boyfriend and I may just marry someday too, just for this reason. We are just real nonconformists and don't like the idea of being married, but we may just have to!

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Looks like I won't get Medicare [View all] PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 OP

Have you been paying self-employment tax on the income you've been receiving ? n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #1

I'm not PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #7

I was self employed for 40 years and always paid my social security and medicare amounts. hollysmom Sep 2013 #2

Do you not pay into SS? alfie Sep 2013 #3

Move to Mexico newfie11 Sep 2013 #4

May have to PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #6

No PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #5

He may be optimizing the trust for taxes, not to get you Medicare/social security. dkf Sep 2013 #8

Yes the poster might want to reconfigure things to be able to pay into SS/Medicare. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #9

Yes PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #14

When I see him in Feb PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #16

You are welcome! dkf Sep 2013 #17

Medicare is not tied to SS -- oops rickford66 Sep 2013 #10

Right. Everyone at 65 can get Medicare, but if you don't have sufficient 'work credits' you must pay PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #11

Wow PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #12

You also probably would want Part B, currently $104.90/month. PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #13

just buy off the exchange DustyJoe Jun 2014 #19

Thanks for all your help!! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #15

does the boyfriend have a long enough work record blackcrowflies Nov 2014 #20

There is a reason for this problem mdm646 Jan 2014 #18