Trump announces $90 Medicare payments ahead of midterm elections
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President Donald Trump announced that more than 20 million Medicare Part B beneficiaries will receive one-time payments of $90 to help cover premium costs, weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
The White House said the payments will be financed through the Medicare Improvement Fund, which Congress established in 2008 to provide flexible funding for Medicare operations and payments to health care providers. Eligible beneficiaries will receive the money by direct deposit or check.
Recipients must live in the United States and cannot already receive Medicaid assistance with their premiums or pay income-adjusted premiums, according to eligibility criteria reported by Fortune. People enrolled in Medicare Advantage, the private-plan alternative to traditional Medicare, are not eligible. The standard monthly Medicare Part B premium is about $202.
Trump presented the payments as evidence that he would fulfill a separate campaign promise to distribute $5,000 to every U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress. That proposal would require congressional approval and cost an estimated $1.2 trillion. Congress has not authorized it.
About 1 million unsubsidized Affordable Care Act enrollees are currently receiving $500 payments. Trump has also proposed other payments, including a $5,000 “DOGE dividend” and tariff-funded checks, neither of which Congress authorized.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story needs a few details softened or corrected to match the source language. - "in October": Common Dreams says the payment is expected around October 8 and Fortune says it will be in October, but the sources do not support saying beneficiaries will receive the payments in October as a certainty. - "Trump presented the payments as evidence that he would fulfill a separate campaign promise to distribute $5,000 to every U.S. adult if Republicans retain control of Congress.": The sources say Trump promised $5,000 to every U.S. citizen or American adult, not every U.S. adult. - "The administration previously began issuing $500 payments to about 1 million unsubsidized Affordable Care Act enrollees.": The sources say those enrollees are currently receiving or would get payments, but do not say the administration previously began issuing them.
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Trump announces $90 Medicare payments ahead of midterm elections
President Donald Trump announced that more than 20 million Medicare Part B beneficiaries will receive one-time payments of $90 in October to help cover premium costs, weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
The White House said the payments will be financed through the Medicare Improvement Fund, which Congress established in 2008 to provide flexible funding for Medicare operations and payments to health care providers. Eligible beneficiaries will receive the money by direct deposit or check.
Recipients must live in the United States and cannot already receive Medicaid assistance with their premiums or pay income-adjusted premiums, according to eligibility criteria reported by Fortune. People enrolled in Medicare Advantage, the private-plan alternative to traditional Medicare, are not eligible. The standard monthly Medicare Part B premium is about $202.
Trump presented the payments as evidence that he would fulfill a separate campaign promise to distribute $5,000 to every U.S. adultcitizen if Republicans retain control of Congress. That proposal would require congressional approval and cost an estimated $1.2 trillion. Congress has not authorized it.
The administration previously began issuing $500 payments to aboutAbout 1 million unsubsidized Affordable Care Act enrollees.enrollees are currently receiving $500 payments. Trump has also proposed other payments, including a $5,000 “DOGE dividend” and tariff-funded checks, neither of which Congress authorized.
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