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Is there a case worker or social worker that helps disabled people makes sense of medicare, etc?

My younger sister is 22 and now considered disabled. She recently became eligible for SSI and some other things. Due to her emotional problems and learning disabilities, she doesn't understand any of this, and doesn't know what to do with the paperwork. She literally has piles and piles of papers and booklets. I don't know where to start! Is there some type of case worker or social worker who helps with this?? From what I can grasp, she gets medicare, medicaid, SSI, some aarp, plus "extra help" for low income individuals, in addition to my parents insurance. What I don't understand is how they all work together. I dont know if she needs to sign up for certain things or opt out of others. As of now she just ignores it all and I'm afraid she'll lose it all! I can't understand it all for the life of me! I don't know how someone elderly or mentally handicapped is expected to...! We live in wisconsin, if it matters

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1. There should be, but I never found one. I went through the process a couple of years ago. I don't know how anyone is supposed to figure it out either. I lucked out & got an award because I have a vision problem. I still don't understand all of it I I was a college professor. Help her do the paperwork the best you can & meet the deadlines. I found the SSA to be pretty helpful when I called. She can expect to be tested to prove that she has a disability.
2. medicare is for people who have worked before--and i believe it tis a 2 year wait once you get approved for SSDI MEDICAID is what people with SSi can get AARP is for people over 50.. The number of work credits is pro rated for younger people--you donot need 10 years worth if you are younger THere may be a county social services office taht handles medicaid enrollment...
3. A 22 year old who just got qualifed as disabled would not have all those services. I suspect some may be for your parents and not for her. AARP= American Association for Retired People. None of their benefits are for people under 50. If she is on SSI, she wouldn't also be on SSDI unless she had been receiving SSDI on your parents record and the SSI supplements the SSDI. That would only be true if she had been receiving benefits as a disabled child. Or another possibility would have been she had 10 years of work credits, but at 22 that is impossible. Someone applied for all these benefits for her. Who? They should know what she actually applied for. If she is getting SSI - which is the one benefit that makes sense - there is no "opting in" to anything - the checks will just start coming in.