Missed the deadline to make medical aid changes for 2017? Don’t worry – here’s why.
The 2016 year has been fraught with busy-ness, and deadlines seemed to have whizzed past many of us over the past 12 months.“Financial crunch” and “economic crisis” are common phrases used by most of the population, as individual salary increases seem to be continuously constrained or even, in some cases, non-existent. Home budgets are stretched so tightly that there’s just no room to squeeze anything more out of them.
Yet, without fail, annual insurance premiums and medical aid fee increases continue to climb at above-average rates, directly affecting a family’s take-home pay even further.
