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PoindexterOglethorpe

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16. Nope. Medicare part B does NOT raise the same as the increase. At least not in my experience
Sun Aug 21, 2022, 10:23 PM
Aug 2022

since collecting Medicare since 2014. Yeah, some years since then we got zero increase, and once or twice the Medicare Part B increase was the same, but most years? No. My Social Security amount has increased a noticeable amount over the years.

I am truly sorry if SS is your only income, but it's hardly breaking news that it was NEVER intended to be the only source of income in later life. It was intended to be one leg of a three-legged stool. The other two legs were savings and a pension, which today would be a 401k.

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Sure Timewas Aug 2022 #1
As reported, last paragraph, Medicare will stay the same $170.10 question everything Aug 2022 #4
Hopefully Timewas Aug 2022 #7
the last increase was no where NEAR wiped out in rising premiums stopdiggin Aug 2022 #8
Nope. Medicare part B does NOT raise the same as the increase. At least not in my experience PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2022 #16
Good, I guess; hope we all can afford it. elleng Aug 2022 #2
So will Medicare Part B rise to take the extra. TexLaProgressive Aug 2022 #3
No. Read the last paragraph: will stay the same at $170.10 question everything Aug 2022 #5
That's a relief 😅 TexLaProgressive Aug 2022 #6
not in my household stopdiggin Aug 2022 #9
Me either Rebl2 Aug 2022 #11
In the same 7 years I've been on SS and Medicare my COLA has mostly been less than PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2022 #17
Woo-hoo, bring it on! ShazzieB Aug 2022 #10
I know a happy Senior YoshidaYui Aug 2022 #12
I'll take anything. MFs shouldn't tax SS. twodogsbarking Aug 2022 #13
"Over the next two months"? wryter2000 Aug 2022 #14
Next, stop taxing SS checks Cheezoholic Aug 2022 #15
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