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(49,367 posts) Tue Dec 13, 2016, 02:39 PM Dec 2016

Creative accounting for Medicare Part B premiums [View all]

Yes, I've heard about the 0.3% increase of SS benefits. Right. A whooping $4 a month. But what surprised me, my spouse already got the benefit schedule for 2017 and the Medicare premium is not "an average of $109" as it is said in the Medicare page.

https://www.medicare.gov/your-medicare-costs/part-b-costs/part-b-costs.html

No, it is calculated so that the net benefit is the same as it is in 2016. Thus, each one of us - at least if we get Medicare premiums deducted from our SS benefits - will pay a different premium.

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Creative accounting for Medicare Part B premiums [View all] question everything Dec 2016 OP

thanks for the info lillypaddle Dec 2016 #1

My soc. Sec. check will be 1.00 less than last year dixiegrrrrl Dec 2016 #2

This is strange question everything Dec 2016 #3

Fact is whatever the 0.3% raise one receives is going to be paid to Medicare premium, in other words Thinkingabout Dec 2016 #4