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.
Thirty-five percent of Americans are classified having a normal weight so far in 2014, while 35.3% of adults are considered overweight.. Meanwhile, underweight Americans make up a very small 2.1% of the adult population. The obesity rate was 25.5% in 2008 when Gallup and Healthways first began tracking it. The percentage of obese adults has fluctuated since then, but is now 2.2 percentage points higher than it was in 2008. Across major demographic categories, obesity rates are higher or stable thus far in 2014 compared with 2013.