This Medicare Quirk Will Eat into Retirees' Social Security Checks in 2018

Recently, the Social Security Administration announced that more than 65 million recipients will get a 2% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2018. But a Medicare quirk will keep 70% of beneficiaries from seeing that extra cash. Here's more on that little-known Medicare stipulation - and how you can boost your returns by 20%, no matter what Uncle Sam is doing... Tags: Retirement Article To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2017 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post This Medicare Quirk Will Eat into Retirees' Social Security Checks in 2018 appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .