[Rhonda100]

My mother has been in the hospital for 3 months. She is 74 years old. The hospital has froze her bank account with her social security benefits being direct deposit into it. The lady is going to have a heart attack over this. When will they unfreeze her account and how much will they keep on her?

Rhonda100

[K_2]

Read the sticky note at the top of this thread. It covers this issue.

[excon]

Hello R:

Hospitals don't freeze bank accounts. The courts do. Therefore, you'll have to tell us a little bit more if you want to get a GOOD answer.

excon

[JudyKayTee]

My mother has been in the hospital for 3 months. She is 74 years old. The hospital has froze her bank account with her social security benefits being direct deposit into it. The lady is going to have a heart attack over this. When will they unfreeze her account and how much will they keep on her?

Rhonda100

Don't know if this is your mother's situation - my best friend was recently hospitalized for several weeks (in Florida). When she went to the emergency room they requested that she pay her deductible - she gave them her bank debit card info. She was admitted, had surgery, developed an infection and it was a long and expensive hospital stay. About three weeks into the stay a neighbor brought her mail to the hospital and she discovered a notice from her bank that she was overdrawn. Discovered that the debit card was being used by the hospital for her deductibles as they occurred.

This, of course, has nothing to do with social security but she had a terrible time getting her money back from the hospital, ended up retaining an Attorney, as they insisted she had approved the deductions - which she had not, only approving the one time emergency room charge.

Does your mother have a debit card that goes against her bank account and perhaps they are considering that she approved the charges notwithstanding that the balance was all SS deposits - ?

[Fr_Chuck]

If she is in the hospital, and this is the US I will assume she has medicare and will owe the balance, or perhaps someone did not property file her medicare with them.

But she will owe the balance that medicare does not pay. So they most liekly have went to court to get the rest of their money, so they will take up to the amount she owes them.

The social security money shoule be stopped form going into that account, first,

[JudyKayTee]

Three months doesn't seem like a long enough time to generate a bill, have a default, schedule a hearing, arrange for service, obtain a judgment and enforce it -

I think there must be more to this.