Corrections

This site publishes dollar figures, income thresholds, and deadlines that people use to make decisions worth thousands of dollars. Sooner or later one of them will be wrong. When that happens, the fix is only half of what we owe you — the other half is telling you it happened, so you can go back and check whether the page you relied on was the page that was broken.

How to tell us something is wrong

Write to us through our contact page. Two things make a report easy to act on: the address of the page, which you can copy from the top of your browser, and the figure or sentence that looks wrong. You do not need to know what the correct answer is. Half the errors worth catching start with a reader saying that a number did not match the letter in their hand.

We read every report. If you turn out to be right, the page gets fixed and an entry appears here. If the figure is right and the page explained it badly, that is our problem too, and the wording gets fixed instead.

What counts as a correction

A correction is logged when something factual was wrong: a dollar amount, an income threshold, a deadline, an eligibility rule, or a calculation that produced the wrong answer. Those get an entry here, and a note on the affected page as well when the error could have changed a decision.

Routine annual updates are not corrections. When a new year's figures are announced, the old ones were not wrong — they were the figures for their year, and they stay online under their own date. Those changes are listed on our what's new page instead. How the figures get here in the first place is described in our methodology.

Follow the figures without coming back

Two feeds, both free, neither of which asks for an email address or knows who subscribed.

• The figure-change feed (RSS) — one entry every time a figure on this site is checked against the document that sets it, newest first, each carrying the agency, the source and the date it was read.
• The Medicare and Social Security calendar (.ics) — subscribe in any calendar app and the enrollment windows appear alongside your own appointments. It carries only the dates fixed by statute, plus the scheduled data releases. The announcements everybody would most like a reminder for — the cost-of-living figure in October, the premium notice in November — are deliberately absent, because their dates move each year and we do not have them. A guessed date sitting in your own calendar under our name would look like a fact somebody checked.