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To use Advantage you must enroll in Part B. About 170 a month. That funds Advantage. Advantage will cost the full Part B cost or less depending on plan and your US zip code.

I verify this. Advantage not regular Medicare. Advantage is private insurance. See my topic about it. However you can only use parts of the benefits and you must select from a very limited set of Advantages insurers. You must not tell the insurer that you live abroad either. Watch the entire video here. However using a US address and direct depositing to Thailand would basically be telling them you're lying. Of course Americans using the income method for retirement here do direct deposit to Thailand.

Yes depositing to a US account doesn’t change anything as far as the SS address record showing you live abroad..

Not irrelevant. Using a US address means the proof of life letter is not required. Also I recently learned Medicare Advantage can be used abroad if you use a US address That's a big deal Your address must be the same for SS and Medicare.

Hmmm. I was hoping for a more robust response in terms of people voting. Considering it's obvious that lots of Americans on social security are members here. It just takes a few seconds to vote and run.

NOTE: Please do not vote in this poll unless you are definitely a resident in Thailand and have an active Social Security claim. A simple question. This is directed at people that are unambiguously living in Thailand. Not snowbirds. I'm not going to define it by number of days per year in the U.S. vs. Thailand. Just use common sense -- you probably know if you live here or not! Americans living abroad with a social security claim are required to have their foreign address on file with social security. Of course, many Americans living abroad just keep their U.S. address on file. It might be a house they own, friend, or relative, etc. Those with a foreign address on file must file Form 7162 ("proof of life") annually. Failing to do so results in benefits suspension. Those with a U.S. address on file are not sent Form 7162 so they are seen as U.S. residents and don't risk benefits cut off for not filing that form. Of course as it is required for Americans living abroad with a SS claim to inform SS of their foreign address, by not complying there could be a risk of problems if SS discovers you have been doing that. So I am curious about what percentage of Americans residing in Thailand (unambiguously) with a SS claim are using a Thai vs. a U.S. address. IF you have been using a U.S. address, what is the amount of S.S. mail sent to that address, if any? Has any required a response? Have you ever suffered consequences (such as benefits suspension) if SS discovers that you have been using a US address when you shouldn't be doing so?

Thai culture interests me little but the point here was avoiding thrown powder and water from any culture.

Throwing colored powder and water? Thank you whatever Gods for limiting the time and area of such madness! Cultural appropriation? No. Cultural avoidance? Yes.

Confirmed that you can enroll in these plans for use internationally excluding North Korea and Ukraine so that includes Thailand ha ha. Medicare Advantage or Atlas. You need to state a US residencial address for both options.

It's simply a bait.

Not illegal but every day is straight pride day.

The Ultra Maga party controls the house and the majority of state governments. They are passing vicious anti LGBT laws all across the country. Yes that is government. Maybe you lack understanding of the US system.

Some people are ignorant.

Learn from history. When fascists tell you their intentions, believe them.

Yes and suicides especially of LGBT youth.

Red herring.

You've got to be kidding.

Or making them invisible

People just wanting to live their lives as they are is not picking a fight It's the fascists picking a fight. They fire up their ignorant bigoted base by targeting people who are different.

Does not compute. So what? Do you want to be cruel to non breeding straight people too? But you must love lesbian mothers then?

Better advice is fight back against the fascists. Their hate policies kill people.

That's the ultra maga brand.

Tell me how being cruel to LGBT citizens is kind? Would you appreciate your government trying to ERASE whatever you are?

Fascists need scapegoats. First they came for ...

More interestingly for the suspicious path she took to immigration given the politics of her immigration demagogue spouse.