Neither his employer nor our local Social Security office had concrete advice on how to proceed about enrolling in Medicare, ...

More than half of older Americans now get their Medicare coverage through an insurance company's Medicare Advantage (MA) plan ...

More than half of older Americans now get their Medicare coverage through an insurance company's Medicare Advantage plan.

Beneficiaries’ initial enrollment choices, whether active or passive, tend to have long-lasting implications because ...

For most people, the Medicare initial enrollment period (IEP) is their first chance to sign up for Medicare. Learn about IEP dates and more.

If you’ve just celebrated your 65th birthday or it’s coming up in the next year, your mailbox is probably full of postcards, flyers and letters about your eligibility for Medicare. It’s ...

Medicare has several time windows during which a person can enroll in or change their insurance plan. When a person signs up outside of these timeframes, Medicare may apply a late enrollment penalty.

Key Medicare deadlines fall between May 17 and June 15. Here's what beneficiaries need to do to avoid penalties, delays, or ...

How to think about the best ways to utilize your retirement and health care benefits when you may be older, or younger, than ...