I was laid off from Williamsburg along with 140 others in January 21009. As part of my severance package,I was allowed to keep my health care till July 31,2009,if I paid an $800.00 fee up front.
I have been told by the government that I was entitled to special enrollment due to my circumstances. Now,they have told me that because I had signed up for a Cobra health care plan,which is not a group plan,I have to wait till January to sign up,and Medicare part B will not kick in till NEXT July. Without B I cannot get D,the prescription plan. I did not know this about Cobra. No one told me about this snag. When I was fully employed,I had a group care program,and didn't know this was different as Williamsburg was subsidizing it just as if I was still employed.
This means I have to pay full price every month to continue Cobra for 1 full year at $467.23 per month.
I didn't realize this was the case till yesterday,and now I'm stuck. Does anyone know how to get around this word game that Medicare is playing with me? I paid into these benefits for 47 years,and now they deny me them.