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How Returning or continuing to Work Can Affect Your Social Security Check (2026)

Susie Brown

Published on: 23/03/2026

If you work while receiving Social Security in 2026, your benefits may be reduced depending on your age and income. If you’re under full retirement age (FRA), you can earn up to $23,040 before benefits are reduced. In the year you reach FRA, the limit increases to $60,720. Once you reach FRA, there’s no earnings limit and your benefits are no longer reduced. Keeping track of your earnings helps avoid unexpected reductions and ensures your full benefit resumes at the right time.

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Medicare Advantage and Part D Rate Announcement

Susie Brown

Published on: 23/03/2026

In the CY 2026 MA and Part D Advance Notice, CMS proposed updates to payment factors for CY 2026 and received a wide variety of comments on our proposals. CMS appreciates the submitted comments. We considered applicable comments as we finalized the policies contained in the CY 2026 Rate Announcement. The final policies in the CY 2026 Rate Announcement are projected to result in an increase of 5.06%, or over $25 billion, in MA payments to plans in CY 2026.

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How can the Word YES change my Medicare Plan and What Can I Do

Susie Brown

Published on: 16/03/2026

Here’s what’s happening — and why a simple “yes” can sometimes unintentionally change your Medicare Advantage plan

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Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program

Susie Brown

Published on: 02/03/2026

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule on April 4, 2025, that modernizes and improves Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D), Medicare cost plan, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) programs.

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