If approved for Social Security Disability Benefits or SSI. The successful applicant also gets medical insurance. You either get Medicare or Medicaid or both each of these programs has its pluses and minuses in comparison to the other program. Whether you get Medicare or Medicaid strictly depends on whether your approved for SSI or disability or in some cases both, but this option is on available for certain people who are very low income. So in some cases you would only get Medicare but fortunately that usually means that your check is substantially higher.