The FY2027 President's Budget requests $409.6M for Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund Contribution, within Homeland Security's Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund Contribution account. That is up 41% on the FY2026 figure of $290.1M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $290.1M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $290.1M |
| FY2027 | request | $409.6M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
The Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund (MERHCF) Contribution funds the U.S. Coast Guard's (USCG) accrual of its military Medicare- eligible health benefit contribution to the Department of War (DOW). These contributions cover future Medicare-eligible retirees as well as retiree dependents and their potential survivors. The USCG calculates its annual budget estimate by multiplying the projected average force strength by DOW actuary-projected normal cost rates for active duty and reserve personnel.
Extracted from United States Coast Guard, p. 7. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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