Adventures in Medicare
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I wish I could say things went totally smoothly, but I'm afraid that simply wasn't the case.
It seems that their 'select' credit history questions involved individuals with whom I did not know from past dealings, necessitating an interview of sorts from the social security administration office in Chicago, Illinois.
Anyway after a couple of misses on the phone we connected Friday and she had a few questions derived ostensibly from reading from my social security report on her computer screen.
She asked for my date of birth and I told her and we touched on how it had just passed.
She asked for my mother's maiden name and that was certainly no issue.
She asked me the city and state of my birth and that question came and went without any problems.
She asked me about my first job and I passed that question with flying colors as well.
Then we went on to discuss the level of medicare for which I had applied and it became obvious to her that I was indeed the individual who had completed the online application.
So the lesson here was just because you don't think something is going well perhaps all it needs is a little personal interaction whereby you can prove yourself and ... voila !
Now I'm offically a new card carrying old fart.