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To: Katelew who wrote (60602)	4/21/2008 5:39:33 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541701

If you were retired for seven years, then your income shouldn't be changing from '06 to '07. N0?? No, my income has been pretty much the same since I retired. Almost all of my income is from a pension. What has changed is not my income. What is different is 1) that they recently passed the means-test law (effective in '07) and 2) I turned 65 so I entered Medicare. I'm not sure what I said that confused things. Sorry about that. This is my first year in Medicare and shortly after I enrolled I got a notice that I had to pay a means-tested premium. I was startled by that because I never thought of my retirement income as signaling "wealthy." Particularly given that that same income is low enough to be qualifying for a real estate poverty program. It's the juxtaposition that boggles my mind.

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