COLA Ledger

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2008 Medicare Part B premium — $96.40

Standard monthly Part B premium, 2008

$96.40

+$3 on 2007. The annual deductible was $135, +$4 on the year before.

Standard premium
$96.40per month
Annual deductible
$135
Change on 2007
+$33.10%

What it did to a Social Security payment

The Part B premium is withheld from the Social Security payment, so it lands in the same January as the cost-of-living adjustment and the two move against each other. A $2,000 monthly benefit in 2007 became $2,046 gross with the 2.3% adjustment — a rise of +$46. After the premium went from $93.50 to $96.40, the payment rose +$43, an effective 2.26%.

A $2,000 benefit through the 2008 adjustment and premium
20072008
Gross monthly benefit$2,000$2,046
Part B premium$93.50$96.40
Net payment$1,906$1,949

The full ledger for a $2,000 benefit at current rates carries the annual figures and the percentile context.

No income-related table is committed for this year

The Medicare Modernization Act phased the income-related premium in across 2007 to 2009, so the tiers published for this year are a fraction of the full adjustment and cannot be validated against the statutory multipliers. Rather than publish a table that fails its own check, this site publishes none. The coverage gaps are listed in full.

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Figures effective 1 January 2008. Page figures last verified against the sources above on 10 August 2026. Corrections: the correction log · support@inventum.com.au