Social Security plays a large role in your life after you retire, and Jack Myers, Public Affairs Specialist with the Social Security Administration says that social security can also play a role in medicare. With medicare, Powers says it’s easy to apply and there are two parts to Medicare—part A and part B.

Myers says there is an initial enrollment period and you will want to get signed up within the first three months of that period.

You don’t have to be 65 to sign up for Medicare benefits. 

There are other parts of Medicare also that aren’t covered under social security.

Jack Myers appeared as a guest on the Newstalk WTIM Morning Show.