If your wife is eligible as a result of her work record, you are as well, so congratulations! Your Part A coverage is now assured and paid.You know, it just dawned on me a few minutes ago, that I think all this worry is for naught. As my wife has worked, and paid into both for 25-30 years, I can qualify thru her, right? Obviously many homemakers have qualified this way over the years, it just never occurred to me, from my male-type viewpoint.