# 2025-15152: SSA and IRS Link Up to Tweak Your Medicare Bills via Tax Snooping

2025-15152, Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program, is a Federal Register notice from Social Security Administration published 2025-08-11; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15152
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15152
- Title: Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Social Security Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 38691
- Published: 2025-08-11
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

SSA and IRS Link Up to Tweak Your Medicare Bills via Tax Snooping

## Summary

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is teaming up with the IRS to share tax info to make sure Medicare Part B and D premiums are set just right. This new matching program helps adjust subsidies and premium increases accurately, so folks get fair billing. It affects anyone on Medicare and kicks in soon, with no extra cost to you.

## Abstract

In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Under this matching program, the IRS will disclose to SSA certain tax return information for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of Medicare Part B premium subsidy adjustments and Medicare Part D premium increases provided under the Social Security Act (Act), the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Medicare Modernization Act), and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).

## Effects PRIA read

- IRS Shares Tax Data to Set Medicare Premiums: benefit, medium. If you have Medicare, the Social Security Administration will get certain tax return information from the IRS so it can set the correct Medicare Part B premium subsidy adjustments and Medicare Part D premium increases. This matching program is intended to make billing fairer for Medicare enrollees.…

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## Sources
- [2025-15152 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/11/2025-15152/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program)
- [2025-15152 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-11/pdf/2025-15152.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15152 (as of 2026-06-08).