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.
By Russ Britt. The percentage of medically uninsured people in the U.S. has fallen to a record low, according to data released Thursday by the pollsters Gallup and Healthways. The report says the uninsured rate stood at 13.4% during the second quarter, its steepest drop ever, down from 15.6% in the first quarter. Itâs also the first survey conducted after the sign-up period for the Affordable Care Act ended on March 31.