{"id":36,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-premiums-rise-in-plan-year-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"texas-premiums-rise-in-plan-year-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-premiums-rise-in-plan-year-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Premiums Rise in Plan Year 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/gilberto-2\/understanding-2027-premiums-remotion-videos-02c4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Texas, health, dental and vision premiums are increasing for Plan Year 2027. Retiree rates changed Sept. 1, with more changes Jan. 1, 2027.<br \/>\nTexas will continue paying 100% of health premiums for eligible retirees, so many will not feel higher health plan costs in Plan Year 2027.<br \/>\nHigher 2027 costs can affect retirees lacking full state support, part-time retirees, households covering dependents, survivors, and others without a state premium contribution.<br \/>\nTexas said higher care use and rising medical, drug, and vision costs drove changes. Dental and vision increases are meant to support access and coverage.<br \/>\nVision premiums also rise to support continued coverage, and Texas said updated premium details for retirees with federal coverage will be posted in Early-Q4.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Texas, health, dental and vision premiums are increasing for Plan Year 2027. Retiree rates changed Sept. 1, with more changes Jan. 1, 2027. Texas will continue paying 100% of health premiums for eligible retirees, so many will not feel higher health plan costs in Plan Year 2027. Higher 2027 costs can affect retirees lacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}