{"id":191,"date":"2014-11-02T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-10-29T19:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:27:57","slug":"no-need-to-spend-2015-cola-increase-on-health-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/no-need-to-spend-2015-cola-increase-on-health-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"No need to spend 2015 COLA increase on health costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-b4d15ef2-5e39-baee-90e8-1c921537e881\"><strong>No need to spend 2015 COLA increase on health costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s some great news for retirees on fixed budgets that are often stretched by medical expenses. Monthly premiums for Medicare Part B and the related deductible for 2015 will remain the same as in 2013 and 2014, according to a recent announcement from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/2014pres\/10\/20141009a.html\" class=\"broken_link\"> the U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Services<\/a> (HHS).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It means retirees won&#8217;t have to spend any of the latest<a href=\"http:\/\/ssa.gov\/news\/#%21\/post\/10-2014-2\"> cost of living increase<\/a> (COLA) in Social Security benefits &#8212; a 1.7 percent rise &#8212; on higher Medicare premiums.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here Steve Vernon outlines the latest about Medicare and it\u2019s relation to the most recent COLA developments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In what ways have you spent your COLA in the past? Do you spend it on medical costs? Share your feedback. We\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/medicare-costs-that-wont-be-rising-in-2015\/\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/medicare-costs-that-wont-be-rising-in-2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No need to spend 2015 COLA increase on health costs Here&#8217;s some great news for retirees on fixed budgets that are often stretched by medical expenses. Monthly premiums for Medicare Part B and the related deductible for 2015 will remain the same as in 2013 and 2014, according to a recent announcement from the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,55,56,6,2],"tags":[12,58,31,30,33,32,34,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.torrid-tech.com\/community\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}