Is it possible to delay the enrollment of Medicare Part A without penalty?

[compiler]

It does.

Thanks for reply. If the unemployed wife at age of 65 enrolls in the premium free Medicare Part A before the younger employed spouse enrollment, will it stop the employed spouse contributing his HSA?

 

[Fisher]

Thanks for reply. If the unemployed wife at age of 65 enrolls in the premium free Medicaid Part A before the younger employed spouse enrollment, will it stop the employed spouse contributing his HSA?

Medicare Part A, not Medicaid.

And no.

 

[compiler]

Medicare Part A, not Medicaid.

And no.

I learn from the others replies. Delaying enrollment of Medicare Part A may avoid additional forms filled late when one retires and is ready to sign up Medicare Part B. It seems unnecessary to hurry signing up premium free Medicare Part A if one currently has employer sponsored group of health insurance and expect unlikely to get inpatient care. Do you agree?

 

[LostDollar]

I learn from the others replies. Delaying enrollment of Medicare Part A may avoid additional forms filled late when one retires and is ready to sign up Medicare Part B. It seems unnecessary to hurry signing up premium free Medicare Part A if one currently has employer sponsored group of health insurance and expect unlikely to get inpatient care. Do you agree?

no.

Caveat, not an agent.

Delaying Part A enrollment WILL NOT eliminate the requirement to file additional forms with a late Part B enrollment to support the Part B employer SEP.

Advice you may have seen in another thread stated as given by a Social Security telephone advisor, was, in my non-agent opinion, incorrect.

I took part A when I turned 65. I did not have an HSA. I did not have to use Part A during the time my Medicare coverage consisted only of Part A. I took Part B later, using the employer health insurance sep. The ONLY reason I had any trouble with that process was because I did not understand one has to have the supplementary forms from ALL employers since one turned 65, not just the last one.

 

[Chazm]

I learn from the others replies. Delaying enrollment of Medicare Part A may avoid additional forms filled late when one retires and is ready to sign up Medicare Part B. It seems unnecessary to hurry signing up premium free Medicare Part A if one currently has employer sponsored group of health insurance and expect unlikely to get inpatient care. Do you agree?

IMO it's easier to help someone apply for Part B when they already have A.