1 Don't respond to unwanted calls, the FTC says --even if the call says you should press a number to opt-out of future messages. 2  All that will do is verify to the spammer or scammer that your number is real. 3  Similarly, don't respond to unwanted text messages--or click on any links.
(This maximum gets you to 12 months before your application date, plus five months for the waiting period, so your earliest your effective onset date can be is 17 months before the application date.) In this case, the earliest that you can become eligible for Medicare is one year after you apply for Social Security disability.
If you are eligible for Social Security Disability, you are entitled to Medicare after you have received twenty-four months of disability benefits, including any back-pay months. Because benefits begin after five full months of disability, Medicare starts in the thirtieth calendar month of your disability.o receive Medicare before age sixty-five, you have to receive Social Security Disability for twenty-four months. Whether or not you will be eligible for Medicare at age sixty-five will depend on whether you worked enough to be insured for Medicare or are a eligible dependent or survivor of someone who has.