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Who runs Medicare?
During your working life, you pay Medicare tax out of your paycheck. That tax pays for your Part A Medicare, which is the hospitalization portion of Medicare. Then when you enroll in Medicare, you can purchase Medicare Part B which is the medical/doctor's office portion of Medicare. When you purchase Part B, it is automatically deducted from your Social Security check each month. This amount will normally be $96.40(for 2009) unless you make more than $85,000.00 per year, then you will pay more for the monthly premium.
What percentage of income is withheld for social security by the federal government?
Social Security also known as FICA is taxed at 6.2% of income. Medicare is taxed at 1.45%.
Who invented Medicare?
Medicare was founded by Gough Whitlam, the 21st Australian Prime Minister to give free dental and health care using tax payers' money. The universal health care plan was first known as Medibank but was later divided into two branches known as Medibank Private (a private health fund) and Medicare (for public access) by Bob Hawke, Australia's 23rd Prime Minister.
What tax is paid equally by the employer and employee is the?
The required Social security and medicare taxes. Also known as the FICA taxes.
What formerly known government agency HCFA is now called what?
The HCFA is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Does lifelock protect your social security number?
Lifelock protects your social security number by monitoring applications for credit and services that use your social security number.Lifelock is known to be able to protect a person's social security number. This is a large and well known company.
What is the abriveation for the social security act?
The Social Security Act is known as SSA; those are also the initials for the agency that administers it, the Social Security Administration.
What is AARP known for in politics?
Liberal ideas regading health care; protecting Medicare and Social Securiy.
How do you write your social security number?
You can visit your local Social Security office to apply for or get a replacement Social Security Card. You will need to have your birth certificate and a picture ID to get a replacement card.
What is medicaid gap insurance?
Medigap: Medigap (also known as medical supplemental insurance) refers an individual insurance policy which can be purchased to cover certain health care services and costs which are not provided by Medicare. Medigap insurance is becoming very important to people covered under the Medicare program since reduction in levels of benefits and curtailment in availability of services have become reality as a result of the need to control the costs of this program. Medicaid: Medicaid is the federal program which provides for the health care needs of certain low-income people. Medicare: Medicare is the federal program which provides for the health care needs of the elderly, the blind and the disabled.
What another name for social security?
FICA, the abbreviation for Federal Insurance Contribution Act, also known as Social Security. Social Security is also known as Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI), although retirement and survivors' benefits are only a portion of the SSA's obligations.
What is another name for the Social Security system?
FICA, the abbreviation for Federal Insurance Contribution Act, also known as Social Security. Social Security is also known as Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI), although retirement and survivors' benefits are only a portion of the SSA's obligations.
