PART8 QUICK QUIZ

PART 8—QUICK QUIZ

Circle your responses:

T	F	1.	Self-employed persons are covered under social security only if they voluntarily elect to be covered.
T	F	2.	A 40-year-old worker who has 23 quarters of coverage under social security is fully insured.
T	F	3.	Survivors benefits under social security may be paid to parents as well as to children.
T	F	4.	Social security disability benefits are payable for both partial and total disabilities.
T	F	5.	The procedure for determining a worker’s PIA at retirement allows some years of low earnings to be excluded from the calculation.
T	F	6.	A divorced woman may be entitled to social security benefits based on the earnings of her ex-husband if she was married for at least 10 years.
T	F	7.	Under certain circumstances a disabled worker’s social security benefit may be reduced as a result of the worker also receiving workers’ compensation benefits.
T	F	8.	Benefits under part A of medicare are subject to a 20 percent copayment.
T	F	9.	Part B of medicare covers almost all prescription drugs subject to modest copayments.
T	F	10.	Part B of medicare excludes coverage for physician’s fees unless the physician accepts assignment of benefits.

Self-Test Answers
1-F, 2-T, 3-T, 4-F, 5-T, 6-T, 7-T, 8-F, 9-F, 10-F