U.S. earnings, together with what you earned while home, can generate and increase one s benefit through the home country s own Social Security system. Congress and the Social Security Administration recently became alarmed when it was discovered that untold thousands of SSI checks were going to post office boxes in small U.S. towns near the Mexican border, causing crowding in post offices and nearby check-cashing facilities and banks on the first of the month, with recipients quickly then dispersing back across the border for the rest of the month. As a result, severe new restrictions on and monitoring of post office box usage are going into effect in some of these areas. There are unconfirmed reports that Mutual of Omaha, International Trip Assist and Carefree policies include genuine health insurance coverage that can be used by traveling patients with pre-existing conditions. These policies even cover pre-existing medical conditions for those who purchase the insurance within seven or fourteen days of making an advance trip down payment through a travel agent.
Some credit cards offer limited benefits.
But read the fine print to be sure. Visa offers optional enhancements for those banks issuing its credit cards to cover, at extra cost, emergency evacuation and some actual medical insurance coverage. Cards issued by credit unions often carry this coverage as a marketing tool . Again, read plan materials with care to make sure that you re buying actual insurance and not just medical evacuation and medical advice line services. They more than anyone are likely to have acquired insurance details because of their long experience serving their HIV-positive customers.