As many as 155,000 civilian and military employees and retirees enrolled in the federal long-term care insurance program can expect their premiums to increase by as much as 25 percent later this year or early next year.
The increases will affect most of those who are enrolled in the program’s “automatic compound inflation protection” option. Under this option, enrollees’ benefit payments increase 5 percent annually, but premiums do not regularly increase. Under the new policy, however, a range of premium increases will go into effect, depending on the age at which an enrollee first signed up for coverage. Enrollees who first purchased coverage at age 65 or younger face a premium increase of 25 percent. Those who purchased coverage between the ages of 65 and 70 face smaller increases. Those who purchased at age 70 or older face no increase.
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