monthly adjustment amount (IRMAA), in addition to their regular plan premiums. The higher-income surcharge is calculated as the difference between the Part D base beneficiary premium (which in 2023 represents 25.5% of the average national bid amount) and 35%, 50%, ...
Home/Original Medicare/Medicare Parts/Part D/Medicare Part D Costs Updated onNovember 21, 2024 Written By: David Haass Reviewed By: Ashlee Zareczny Summary:Recent changes stemming from the Inflation Reduction Act make Medicare Part D plans even more affordable for those on a fixed budget. The ...
we now get an IRR of 3.59% and an NPV advantage of almost $9,000 when using a 2.5% annual discount rate. Please see the screenshot below. And again, some people will complain that 3.59% is much lower
one of my neighbors, a senior in high school who played the trombone, asked me to play on a dance band. I said, "I’d love to but I don't know how to dance" [laughs]. He said, “No, no, the
From time to time he’d sit out front during rehearsals to hear me play. JW: What did people in the band think of that?SK: At the time they thought he did that so he could hear me play the chart and then copy me, because he couldn’t read music.JW: Was that true?SK: That ...
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BB:I’d write a chart a week, copy it and send it off and get paid $15 bucks. I don’t know how I pulled that off. I was arranging for three tenors, three trumpets and a rhythm section. The band was too poor for a violin [laughs], which was popular then. That was my steady...
We’d see our songs in Cash Box on the R&B charts that covered 16 different markets. There was a chart for Harlem, Chicago South Side, Shreveport, Kansas City and so on. Each chart had different songs rising and falling as opposed to the pop chart, which was a national thing. MM: ...
The first thing you notice about Sammy Nestico when you speak with him is his jolly nature. There's a distinct twinkle in his personality, like that of a storybook toymaker. It's a trait that goes beyond charisma. Sammy's generosity and...
After seven decades in the music business, he remains as comfortable arranging a swinging chart for a big band as he is writing sweeping strings behind a singer. The same duality exists in his personality. When you speak with Johnny, you detect a slight urban gruffness in his voice, the ...