Asklemmy

44697 readers

1698 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Disabled cousin got on SSI, for MediCAL, does he have to enroll yearly, or does it roll over? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My cousin in SoCal recently got on permanent disability last year. So he signed up for MediCal with Kaiser (his last provider), but now it’s 2025, he doesn’t seem to know if he needs to apply each new year.

Tried checking online, but SEO has made it impossible to find out easily. I just don’t want him missing out on enrollment if he needs to do it manually each year.

TIA to anyone who might know the logistics and how the system works. His mom seem is retired and seems 100% sure since he was put on MediCal in mid 2024, it automatically carries over and stays Kaiser. I just don’t want him missing out since he has seizures and his medication cost is high.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Afaik, and you can't use crowd sourced info like this as some kind of realistic guide, it should be handled by his case worker. I'm not very familiar with cali state stuff, only what I've picked up talking to online support groups. But, iirc, he should get something in the mail every year telling him what, if anything, he needs to do.

My yearly letter is just a "you all set" kind of thing, but I'm east coast, so it isn't a guarantee of anything for his state.

Best bet is to contact his case worker and ask. If he doesn't know who that is, contact the local dss office and they'll be able to help to some degree or another.

[–] WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Appreciate the detailed response, and I figured as much I just was praying someone might prove me wrong. Either way, I’ll head over tomorrow and try helping him check it out.

As for the all set letter, is it a yearly automated reminder you’re good to go?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's printed out en masse. Everyone in my disability support group gets one. It basically says something along the lines of the case having been evaluated, and benefits will continue.

[–] WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh a support group sounds great actually, my cousin really needs something like this.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It really is a great thing. Not just for the advice, or even having people that understand intimately what you're going though. It's also having a space where you don't have to pretend.

Check around. We're up here in the Appalachians, in a rural area, so our group is essentially a tri-county thing because there's just not enough people to maintain a group in a single county. So if someone is looking for a group, it helps to not only check for their town or county, but nearby places too.