How Medicare Premiums Affect Social Security Payments

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I don't understand why my yearly RMD is considered part of total income when figuring MAGI. I don't object to paying the taxes on the RMD but I fail to see it as income when moving from one asset to another.

Betty Ross of NC 1:12AM May 22, 2013

I don't understand why my benefits are so low I get 1114 per month and 104.00 is taken out for my premium. I worked for one company for 30 yrs plus and had other jobs and this is all I get. This really sucks big time. I am 67 years old.

Geraldine Marshall of TX 10:40AM April 09, 2013

I can't find an answer to my question about why social security adds my medicare Part B payments back into my total "benefits" on my SAA-1099 when I am actually paying those premiums out of my benefits?

Sandy Schairer of NM 8:56PM March 08, 2013

What will medicare monthly payments be in 2013 for
couples having AGI over $170,000 but less than $214,000.
Also will SS payments have a cola increase in 2013?

Edward Kiss of CA 7:28PM October 11, 2012

i turn 65 in nov 2012. if i stay on my current ins. and don't sign up for medicare, is medicare ins still deducted from my social security check?

glenda stovall of NC 8:56AM October 08, 2012

What percentage increase will we get in 2013? I am on disability & my mother is a 77 year old retirree.

Wayne R. Smith of AR 8:11PM January 24, 2012

It is wonderful that people somewhere out there can afford to live on their Social Security checks But,,,,, what they fail to tell you is that most of the American people Do Not live on that kind of income from Social Security Benefits. BECAUSE some of them worked sooo hard or stressed sooo much in their working adult life that they were forced by a sudden injury or illness that they had to retire early and cannot work to that level anymore. These people are the ones that are struggling on Disability or even worse. They were not able to have or hold down a good paying job so they could build up their Social Security Benefits and were forced onto what most common people call Social Security Wellfare, also known as Social Security Supplement Income or (SSI). Because they don't even make enough to live, (Survive) on. These are the people that end up hurting from the increase in living.
How can this be possible?? Well, SSI has a rule they don't tell you about. If you make more income in your Disability check, they decrease the amount they give you to live on. It is based on income and you are only allowed a certain amount. If you exceed that amount they Decrease the amount you get from them. SOOOOO... I ask you this. Who is really benefiting from this wonderful Social Security increase????? It surely is not the growing number of us, Also known as the American People or working class.

K Minor of FL 3:58AM January 24, 2012

If you just signed up this year and benifits start in Jan. when will ss start taking premums out?

R D lane of OH 1:33AM December 23, 2011

When people talk about adding a "means test" to Social Security and/or Medicare, this article shows that there is already a means test of sorts for Medicare. If you are a "high earner," as defined above, you pay a larger monthly Medicare premium. For Social Security, if you make a reasonable amount from other income, your Social Security benefit is taxable, up to 85% of its value. That, too, is a "means test" of sorts.

George Fulmore of CA 10:46PM November 03, 2011