{"id":5,"date":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/understanding-your-2027-premiums\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:00:00","slug":"understanding-your-2027-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/understanding-your-2027-premiums\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding your 2027 premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Premiums for health, dental, and vision insurance under ERS will increase in Plan Year 2027. Medicare-eligible retirees will see premium hikes starting January 1, 2027, while non-Medicare retirees&#039; rates rose September 1. The State of Texas will continue covering 100% of health premiums for eligible retirees, but others, including those with dependents or part-time retirees, will face higher costs. Dental premiums will rise 12.5% to expand provider networks, and vision premiums will increase 7.5% due to higher usage and costs. Life insurance contributions will also increase proportionally.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.einnews.com\/pr_news\/944400792\/understanding-your-2027-premiums\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premiums for health, dental, and vision insurance under ERS will increase in Plan Year 2027. Medicare-eligible retirees will see premium hikes starting January 1, 2027, while non-Medicare retirees&#039; rates rose September 1. The State of Texas will continue covering 100% of health premiums for eligible retirees, but others, including those with dependents or part-time retirees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","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\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}