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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Bev,
Like you my wife was short of enough work experience to receive social 
security or medicare.
To get disability does not require work experience, just be disabled, but in 
our case we have to much property to be eligible.
Van Dell



--- On Sat, 8/8/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Oh, and one unrelated question about healthcare...
> 
> I got my SS statement and I do not qualify for disability
> because I
> don't have enough credits in the right period of
> time.  I've worked off
> and on throughout my life, for several years at a time, but
> never
> consistently enough to qualify for long term disability.
> However, I know people who have never held a job for more
> than a few
> months, who haven't worked in decades, and somehow they get
> a SS
> disability check when they probably haven't paid in enough
> over their
> lifetime to even draw a retirement check.  Can someone
> explain to me how
> this happens?