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3. This is strange

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 06:11 PM

Dec 2016

Did you call and ask?

Don't call the main SS number, you will have a wait time of 40 minutes!

Find out the number of your local branch. This is what I did and got an immediate response.

Last year nothing was changed, or was not supposed to have changed because there was no COLA and if SS does not rise, neither should Medicare premium. I think it is called "do no harm."

Or, call your member of congress, even if a rabid republican and try to get some help in how you should approach this. Even 1.00 - it is the principle.

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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