{"id":12781,"date":"2019-03-07T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2019-03-07T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:49:42","slug":"the-penalties-for-medicare-enrollment-mistakes-can-be-severe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12781","title":{"rendered":"The penalties for Medicare enrollment mistakes can be severe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare initial enrollment period begins three months before your 65<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, the month of your birthday, and continuing for the three months after your birthday.\u00a0 If you miss this window, you cold be subject to a late-enrollment surcharge equal to 10 percent of the standard Part B premium for each 12 months of delay, this penalty never ends. The attached article briefly reviews four common Medicare enrollment mistakes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthmanagement.com\/retirement-planning\/four-common-medicare-enrollment-mistakes\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare initial enrollment period begins three months before your 65th birthday, the month of your birthday, and continuing for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12782,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions\/12782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}