Trump says US will send one-time $90 payment to 20 million Medicare seniors

President Donald Trump has said the US government will send a one-time $90 payment to more than 20 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, the health insurance program for elderly people, according to the Guardian.

Trump said in a social media post late on Friday that the payments, intended to help offset the cost of monthly Medicare premiums, would be sent out in early October. He said the funds would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which he said had been allocated $2 billion by Congress to improve the Medicare fee-for-service program.

Medicare premiums are a recurring cost for enrollees, and periodic adjustments to premium levels have been a point of political attention given the program's scale and its importance to older Americans' household budgets. A one-time payment of this kind would provide a modest, temporary offset rather than a structural change to how premiums are set.

The Guardian's report does not include independent confirmation of the Medicare Improvement Fund's current balance or verification that the $2 billion figure cited by Trump matches congressional appropriations for the fund. It also does not specify the exact mechanism by which the $90 payments would be distributed to eligible enrollees.

Further details on eligibility criteria, the distribution method, and any response from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were not included in the available reporting.