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FROM THE ARTICLE. Top AARP Benefits for August 2025.8 AARP member benefits to help you savor the end of summer and get ready for fall. By AARP. Published July 31, 2025. While your summer might not be endless, your AARP member benefits keep coming! Make the most of summer’s final days and get ready for the busy fall season with these 8 surprising member benefits for August 2025. 1. AARP Navigator: Medicare Initial Enrollment.The Medicare Open Enrollment period for 2026 is just around the corner, starting on October 15th. AARP is the go-to place for Medicare resources for everyone, including how to enroll and evaluate all the different options. If you're enrolling for the first time, it's important to learn what you qualify for, how to compare plans and how to make an informed choice. AARP Navigator: Medicare Initial Enrollment is an exclusive benefit for AARP members that provides step-by-step guidance to help you confidently enroll in the plan that fits your needs.&

Good Morning, Will you be updating your 1040 Tax Calculator to reflect the correct deduction(s) including the new BBB 6000 deduction? If so, when? Thanks.

We are in Choctaw, OK...  Looking for a water aerobics class for seniors for my husband.  Does anyone know if there are any options in our area other than the YMCA?  Apparently the high school used to do this... but no more.  Also looks like one of the junior colleges might do it but I can't get anyone on the phone to find out.  Any info members can find will be appreciated.

 I constantly am receiver mailers for such things a automatic membership renewal, and memberships.  Since I am already a member and had signed up long ago for automatic renewal, why are my membership dollars going out to pay for these expensive mailers? This is not very efficient and I would love to see that operational costs are  being reduced.  I would be surprised if I am the only person throughout the country that get this kind of mail. Are you in the process of comparing your membership data with your marketing data? This  seems to be about as efficient as DOGE. Sincerely,Phil Westmoreland

 The following is from https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/the-2025-tax-bill-additional-6000-deduction-for-seniors-simplified/ On top of those increases to the standard deduction, OBBB adds an additional $6,000 deduction (per individual) for taxpayers 65 or older. This new deduction supplements a preexisting addition to the standard deduction for seniors of $2,000 for single filers and $1,600 per qualifying individual for married filers. This addition to the standard deduction is not available to tax filers who itemize deductions. Has anyone heard any talk of when this new change might show up in the AARP 1040 tax calculator?

 I just received a notification from UnitedHealthcare stating that they are pursuing an 18% INCREASE in rates for the Medicare Supplement Plan G for 2026.  Since I signed up, they have in consecutive years asked for (and received) increases of 5%, 7%, and 9%.  And now they're looking for 18%?  And for what, stock buybacks? Since AARP apparently shills for this company, I have been forced to rethink your usefulness as an organization.  If I don't see you people ACTIVELY lobbying on our behalf in this matter, I will seriously entertain dropping my membership.  In addition, on some of the few social media sites in which I participate, I will actively encourage others to do the same.  DO YOUR JOB!

The Hartford provides the auto and umbrella coverage that I need, however, they refuse to offer homeowner's insurance for homes with a flat roof.  I am disappointed that AARP offers no other options for it's members.  Please find a company that will provide homeowner's insurance that covers flat roofed homes for members that need this coverage.  Thank you for your consideration

I switched my membership to all digital on June 2 and I am still getting the magazine and bulletin mailed to me. How long does it take to stop getting those mailed? I did get a confirmation email on June 2 saying I would stop getting mailed publications.

Just give me the discount you offer in the endless, annoying, selfish, greedy, time wasting, USPS spam marketing -- and we're done. You offered $49 / 5 years -- in USPS marketing pieces (spam) -- and if I could access that on line --  here -- it would save AARP a fortune in postage and paper, not to mention pissing me off --  otherwise, it looks like we're done with my ancient membership.  It's offensive, very offensive how AARP tries to selfishly un-caringly manipulate everything and does not negotiate or even communicate (why I'm posting here). NO PHONE / NO TEXTING / NO PAPER -- SEND EMAIL -- for me -- and we could finish this up. Thanks, Dru 

Any suggestions for east Louisville?

I amnot receiving my magazine/ I am still at the original address, in california

Unbeknownst to me, someone signed me up for AARP.  I immediately started getting 20-30 scam calls a day for Medicaid/Medicare.  I was able to trace them back to AARP.   I am now putting the full effort of my Marketing and Legal teams to make sure the government and media know about this predatory business.

I updated my address a month ago on my account but magazine still going to old address and then forwarded to me

Membership was renewed via charge dated 7/3/2025.   The membership number was removed to protect privacy.    

Tried several times to hit the link to enter for the "getaway sweepstakes"; however, kept receiving a bad error code?  AARP sent me the email referencing entering this sweepstakes.  This is the very first time that I actually attempted to enter one.  Guess I'll have no such luck on this one?  

Using the latest version on iOS as of today (4.1.5, released on the app store 2 weeks ago). I wanted to keep notifications turned on in case there was anything account-related, but toggle off the news notifications. I did that last night and this morning I was inundated with them. Went back in to the app, toggle for news was once again turned on. Did all the basic troubleshooting steps; logged out, quit the app, logged back in, uninstalled and reinstalled. The issue remains. I was chatting with someone here but got disconnected. I would just like to put in a bug report so the developers can look into and fix this.

Made reservations for Niagara Falls, non refundable through AARP app. Life happened and needed to cancel and the hotel refuse to extend grace and give a refund. AARP, as a company shouldn't partner with anyone that is so hung on a policy that they can't help someone. This is a slap in the face and AARP should take it personally.

I was just notified yesterday that the 55+ park I live in is being put up for sale. This is in Thurston Cnty. WA. I don't want to lose my home.

I bundled my home and auto policies with AARP Hartford in February 2025 due to an attractive quote, but I was not told that the auto quote required me to download their TrueLane app, which detects driving performance. I learned that my policy would increase 15% if I did not have the app. Then I found out that my phone at that time did not have a motion sensor. So I spent $170 on a new phone which has a motion sensor, thinking I would make make up the cost in one year, by saving $90 every 6 months on my auto rate. Imagine my surprise when I received my renewal for August 2025 with a 20% increase. This is a 40% annual increase, in an era of 2 to 3% annual inflation, and wipes out the supposed savings by having the app. The app does not work all the time but when it does work, it usually gives me a one star rating, due to hard braking. If you drive in normal traffic conditions, you will invariably need to brake hard occasionally due to traffic stopping abruptly in front of you or someone

AARP Optum quoted me $38.xx for my script. CVS said nope.......... $118 is what they show for that script in REAL TIME.Called Optum. they said well it's just an estimate and others have said.. That's total BS and very misleading. Optum said they would call CVS and call me back.. Still waiting.......... AARP needs to quit pushing this worthless "benefit". It's FAKE.  

MODERATORS: Measles, Medicare, Medicaid, Food and Housing, Money, Inflation, Deflation, War, Climate, Emergency Services, Military, ..............on and on and on and on and on...........  EVERYTHING THAT AFFECTS THE LIFE OF SENIORS IS A DISCUSSION POINT IN TODAY'S POLITICAL WORLD, AND YET, THIS WEB SITE, UNLIKE MOST OTHER WEB SITES, PUNISHES ITS' MEMBERS FOR SUCH DISCUSSIONS. As one of supposedly 38,000,000 members, I would appreciate it if AARP would reverse its' poorly thought out policy of terminating any political discussion on its' forums. It stifles most discussion about all the things that affect the life of a senior and most of all........     MAKES THIS SITE ONE OF THE MOST BORING SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ON THE INTERNET.

For the past 6 months, at least, every time I click on my AARP Rewards emails, I am told there is trouble accessing my account-I must click and refresh, and then log in to my account. I used to always be logged in unless I specifically logged out. Not a huge problem, but irritating

I went to renew my membership today (add on to it before the expiration date arrives). It looks like the only option available for renewing a membership now is to sign up for auto-renewal (which I DO NOT want to do). Is the organization TRYING to drop members for some reason? Why is auto-renew not just an option, instead members are corralled into a corridor that requires signing up for automatic charges. Generally this is something that is prone to abuse, it's something that magazine subscriptions do - offering low cost entry and then raising rates significantly upon renewals. It is something I have observed from slimy organizations looking to profiteer, but not something that I would at all expect from an organization that touts itself as a membership advocacy organization. When will this be fixed, so members can actually have a choice?

AARP and Budget boast 30% savings plus a 3% discount for return customers. I used the two discounts and decided to run it through with no discounts.The savings a total of 5%.Stop deceiving customers!

Wow, for a group that touts how much they respect and want to help seniors it's pretty funny that their own information is so convoluted that it just confuses rather than helps. You have links to instructions on how people can turn off auto-renewal (your docs specifically say 'Cancel at any time') YET on your website the information that was filled out originally for payment info is nowhere to be found I would specifically have expected to find it in 'My Account' and/or 'My Details' but nope, not there. Upon researching others requests for cancellation I found that persons were to select/create an option to allow for private messages, and to my not so unexpected astonishment, that option doesn't exist either! SO, I suspect the only way to cancel what has become a useless subscription (yeah, auto-renewal is such a scam, companies expect people to forget they have them, shame on you AARP scamming seniors like that) is to call in, which is incredibly disappointing as I really don't want t