📋 Medicare Part B Premiums Expected to Increase in 2026 (AARP Article)

[Winter2025VA]

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Medicare Part B Premium Expected to Top $200 a Month in 2026.

A potential 12.6% increase could create financial problems for older adults on fixed incomes.

By Tony Pugh, AARP. Published September 09, 2025.

Key takeaways.

[1] Trustees’ premium estimate for 2025 was correct.

[2] Social Security COLA will cover the increase for most.

[3] Some who receive small Social Security payments will pay less.

[4] But hold harmless rule doesn’t cover every beneficiary.

But the anticipated rate hike probably won’t be large enough for most beneficiaries to sidestep at least part of the rise through the Social Security Act’s hold harmless provision. The rule prevents Medicare Part B premium increases from reducing some recipients’ monthly benefits to less than what they received the previous year.

USE THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE.

https://www.aarp.org/medicare/medicare-part-b-premium-increase-2026/