{"id":81,"date":"2025-11-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:00:00","slug":"if-you-skip-these-medicare-deadlines-it-could-cost-you-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"If You Skip These Medicare Deadlines, It Could Cost You Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Medicare eligibility begins at 65, with key deadlines to avoid penalties. The Initial Enrollment Period (IEP) spans seven months around your 65th birthday; missing it can cause lifetime Part B premium penalties of 10% per year delayed. A Special Enrollment Period (SEP) applies if you had employer coverage. Annual Enrollment (Oct 15-Dec 7) allows changes to Part D or Advantage plans, with penalties for late Part D enrollment. The General Enrollment Period (Jan 1-Mar 31) is a last chance but includes penalties. Meeting deadlines avoids costly lifetime fees.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/skip-medicare-deadlines-could-cost-121830330.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare eligibility begins at 65, with key deadlines to avoid penalties. The Initial Enrollment Period (IEP) spans seven months around your 65th birthday; missing it can cause lifetime Part B premium penalties of 10% per year delayed. A Special Enrollment Period (SEP) applies if you had employer coverage. Annual Enrollment (Oct 15-Dec 7) allows changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}