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PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,864 posts) Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:18 PM Aug 2018

My new Medicare card arrived today! [View all]

My new number is vastly different from my SSN, and consists of letters and numbers. It's not something that's going to be too easy to memorize, alas. I guess I'll photocopy it so I have a back up and then it's off somewhere to get it laminated.

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My new Medicare card arrived today! [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2018 OP

Received mine about a month ago. Your assessment is the same as mine. I'll have to Tess49 Aug 2018 #1

Congrats on your new card! CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2018 #2

Take a cell phone photo of it. Put the photo in your cell phone memory 3Hotdogs Aug 2018 #3

I probably wouldn't laminate it... wcmagumba Aug 2018 #4

My social security card states very clearly it is not to be used for identification. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2018 #9

In KS... wcmagumba Aug 2018 #11

Since non citizens can get a Social Security card PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2018 #12

So it looks like nykym Aug 2018 #5

Is it legal to laminate it? left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 #6

They advise Timewas Aug 2018 #8

Well, if they didn't want me to laminate it PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2018 #10

Mine came in June. sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #7

My Social Security card is 61 years old. Cold War Spook Aug 2018 #13