{"id":469,"date":"2015-08-13T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=469"},"modified":"2015-08-12T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T22:35:42","slug":"on-your-side-alert-protecting-your-medicare-card-from-crooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"On Your Side Alert: Protecting your Medicare card from crooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\">(By &#8211; Gray Hall,\u00a0www.nbc12.com)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re nearing the age of 65, then you probably know\u00a0you will soon be eligible for Medicare. What you many not know is that the number on your card\u00a0is identical to your Social Security Number. A viewer Called 12 after making the discovery and wanted to alert others.<\/p>\n<p>Delores Nix says when she received her Medicare card in the mail,\u00a0her jaw dropped.\u00a0&#8220;I looked at it and I am going, &#8216;This is my Social Security Number.\u00a0Why would my Social Security Number be on this card?'&#8221; she says. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/story\/29769755\/on-your-side-alert-protecting-your-medicare-card-from-crooks\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Gray Hall,\u00a0www.nbc12.com)\u00a0 If you&#8217;re nearing the age of 65, then you probably know\u00a0you will soon be eligible for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}