Federal Retirees Need To Tighten Belts While Current Employees Expect To See Pay Increases

Article Excerpt: "...Later this fall, the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) will announce health insurance premium increases for 2017. It is expected that premiums could jump due to medical inflation, which is currently triple the overall inflation rate. Total health care spending growth is expected to average 5.8 percent annually over 2015-2025, according to a report just published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Office of the Actuary (OACT). All of these issues, including Medicare Part B premium increases..."

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