Entitlement Eligibility Guidelines

Entitlement Eligibility Guidelines

Potential effects of raising Medicare's eligibility age.

Recent fiscal pressures on Medicare and an already enacted increase in Social Security's normal retirement age have generated discussion of raising Medicare's age of entitlement. This DataWatch examines potential impacts of raising Medicare's eligibility age to sixty-seven on public-sector health spending and individual insurance coverage. The proposed increase would affect a substantial fracti...

Retroactive Entitlement of Retired-Worker Beneficiaries Awarded Benefits in 1971

A provision in section 202(j) of the Social Security Act enables an applicant for social security benefits to become entitled to benefits retroactively for as many as 12 months before the month in which he filed his application, if all requirements have been met for the retroactive period. A fully insured worker who applies for benefits in December 1974, for example, on attaining age 63 may ele...

Eliminating the Medicare waiting period for Social Security disabled-worker beneficiaries.

Medicare eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries begins no earlier than 24 months after entitlement to cash benefits. The original purposes of the 24month waiting period were to limit costs to the Medicare trust funds at a time when many workers might have other health insurance coverage and to ensure that Medicare protection is extended only to persons whose disabili...

Social assistance in nine OECD countries

As a form of social security, means-tested social assistance has acquired an increasing importance in the comparative literature on welfare states. Although there is a growing number of international and comparative studies of East Asian social policy, relatively little attention has been paid to social assistance schemes in this region. This paper makes an effort to step into some of the gaps....