I remember someone telling us about Telly’s scenario. During the switchover, the first payment was duplicate both taken from Easypay due to paying ahead, and again from the first SS check. Then the EasyPay payment was refunded at some point not long after.
But I don’t remember someone sharing how it worked if they were already drawing SS when they started Medicare.
I do know that when someone dies, they supposedly don’t get a SS check for the month of passing, but the SS check that is received that month was for the prior month. So practically speaking, they actually got a check the month they died, and the last Medicare payment was taken out that month, but they were covered by Medicare that last month - yet didn’t pay? So it’s confusing to me.
I called SS when my Dad passed, as I thought they were going to take back his last SS deposit. But they explained that his last SS is paid in arrears and that recent SS deposit was actually for the month before he died, so no that was not going anywhere. It was the next month’s deposit that would be taken back if it happened to deposited. And sure enough, that’s what happened. A deposit immediately followed by a reversal. Did they still pay Medicare for the month of death from that? Who knows!