{"id":625,"date":"2012-11-12T20:37:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:44:53","slug":"can-you-collect-ssdi-and-medicaid-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/blog\/can-you-collect-ssdi-and-medicaid-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you collect SSDI and Medicaid at the same time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/cypresscreek\/blogs\/can-i-lose-medicaid-by-receiving-social-security-disability\/article_8a9748e7-4208-5906-a683-ed6efba6623d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cypress Creek Mirror<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0a 58-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage IIIA metastatic breast cancer. She was unemployed at the time. A breast\/ovarian cancer program through Texas qualified her under Medicaid. She has undergone chemotherapy and a mastectomy. Based on her work credits, she is eligible for Social Security Disability (SSDI), and the amount she can collect will be $1,535.<\/p>\n<p>Her question is: \u201cIf I am put on medical disability through Social Security and I am placed on Medicare, what will happen with my Medicaid benefits? At present, I am not paying anything for my cancer treatments. I understand if I am placed on disability, I will automatically be placed on Medicare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for Medicaid, you must meet certain income requirements, and if you make too much, then you can lose your Medicaid benefits. The woman&#8217;s $1,535\u00a0SSDI benefit would be too much to qualify her for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>She is just beginning her radiation treatments, and she does not have to pay for anything because she qualified with a non-profit organization. The website\u2019s medicare columnist says that the woman should not risk her Medicaid eligibility by applying for Social Security Disability at this point.<\/p>\n<p>She should wait and apply for Social Security Disability after she has finished all of her treatments.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know needs help with benefits, contact the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.lawyersforsocialsecurity.com\">disability lawyers<\/a> at Newlin Disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Cypress Creek Mirror,\u00a0a 58-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage IIIA metastatic breast cancer. She was unemployed at the time. A breast\/ovarian cancer program through Texas qualified her under Medicaid. She has undergone chemotherapy and a mastectomy. Based on her work credits, she is eligible for Social Security Disability (SSDI), and the amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,50],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlindisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}