In the year you reach full retirement age, we deduct $1 in benefits for every $3 you earn above a different limit, but we only count earnings before the month you reach your full retirement age. If you will reach full retirement age in 2017, the limit on your earnings for the months before full retirement age is $44,880. Starting with the month you reach full retirement age, you can get your benefits with no limit on your earnings.
There are over 41 million African Americans, in the United States, accounting for approximately 13 percent of the total population. Over five million Medicare beneficiaries are African American, 10 percent of all beneficiaries. African Americans on Medicare are significantly less well off than non-Hispanic Whites. In 2014, half of all people with Medicare lived on incomes of $24,150 or less per year and had savings of less than $63,350.
The percentage of uninsured U.S. adults has dropped from 18 percent in 2013 to 13.4 percent, as of midway 2014, according to a survey by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Thatâs the lowest quarterly rate in more than six years of tracking the uninsured.