Count down to 65 and medicare part B

I'm going through the "red tape" that it will take to get assistance with my part B medicare premium. I'm one of the 10% of the 12% population who live past 65 years of age and as a member of the 10% I will be dual eligible meaning my check is so small and my assets so low that I will be able to qualify for supplemental social security and medicaid. So far I've made 4 phone calls. Each phone call has answered at least one question that I had and of course some of the advice seems to contain conflicting information! The last call to social security had me talking with a representative that talked down to me and even had the unmitigated gall to answer questions with a question and she also took up some of my valuable cell phone minutes by insisting that I write down two things. 1 and 2 what an idiot, at that point it's debatable - who was the idiot. Nothing irritates me as much as a phone person pretending they can not understand what I am saying. And this lady was from the United States. I wonder when the government is going to start sending our government business to India.

I can not apply for assistance until June 1 so I will not be able to prevent having several $99.90 premiums deducted from my social security check, but I should get that amount refunded after about 3 months. So I'm budgeting for a three month period of time that will include a shortage in my social security check of $100 per month. It's going to be interesting since that will only leave me $8.00 after utilities and rental payment.

No, I'm not asking for donations yet.:-)

The 50% of the 99%

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57343397/census-data-half-of-u.s-poor-or-low-income/

Alinsky

Power is expressed in two ways: the ones who have the most money and or the ones who have the most people. ~ Alinsky

The question is who has the power in the United States today? Is it the ones who control the 1% and or the ones who control the 99%?

I’m one of the 1% at the bottom of the 99%. Because I am a 65 year old woman who began receiving social security at 62 and who has never been married (at least to one tax paying man for at least 10 years.) So I have no value either as a member of a group of poor people or as a member of the group of rich people. Or do I? How many extremely impoverished individuals make up the group of which I am a member? I can get some idea by seeing the food stamp program numbers. Only those whose income is below the poverty level qualify for food stamps. That group numbers as one in 7 people.

I have fretted over the information that the seniors are growing in number. It seems as if the breaking of the American bank is being laid solidly on the slumped shoulders not the fair haired but the grey haired. I’ve thought this information is fear mongering, but is it really a threat being thrown out there. A threat in the context of: “you’d better listen to us baby boomers because we are getting to be a bigger and bigger population.”