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Posted on 09/27/2026 10:30:51 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits.
Matarazzo, whose last role was in the 2025 short film Paper Tiger, told fans on her social media that if she does not get a paying acting role soon, the new union rules will cause her to lose her health insurance, according to Variety.
She made her comment in reply to a similar post made by actor Jack Haven, who told fans that he is $4,000 short of reaching the annual $28,933 earning requirement to retain his SAG-AFTRA health insurance plan.
The most recent SAG-AFTRA union contract is not static at the $28,933 income level, either. According to the agreement, actors will find the annual earning total rise by $900 a year all the way to 2030, meaning that by then actors will have to earn $32,533 every year thereafter before being qualified to enroll in the union’s healthcare plan.
Union scale wages for speaking roles are currently as low as $256 a day for low-budget productions and $1,283 per day for productions carrying a $2 million budget or more.
The Welcome to the Dollhouse star echoed Haven’s distress, telling her fans, “I am literally in the same boat right now. Lots of my fellow actors are. I remember a time when we didn’t have to earn a minimum to qualify for insurance.”
The union began a series of steps several years ago to change the plan “to address financial deficits facing the plan.”
But, according to Variety, that means about 90 percent of actors are no longer covered under the union’s healthcare plans.
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As that gets cut (apparently 90% of actors and actresses will no longer be covered), expect the race to publish tell-all books.
I though they said Obamacare would free workers to pursue their artistic urges. Why can’t these low demand actors sign up?
The union began a series of steps several years ago to change the plan “to address financial deficits facing the plan.”
But, according to Variety, that means about 90 percent of actors are no longer covered under the union’s healthcare plans.
Maybe next time they will listen to their parents when they tell you acting is a great way to starve to death or die of drug abuse.
Gee. You need to work from time to time to receive healthcare from whoever employs you? What is the world coming to?
Well they can rely on their other “urges”.
Time for them to get an actual job.
Can’t they sign up for Obamacare? They supportede it after all.
If you can find an actual job that ia and HC in today’a job market is horrible if you can get insurance.
No one cares!
Many of them are unemployable in any other capacity. That's one of the reasons they stay at it for a lifetime and are terrified of being forced out.
Yes but it will be expensive because they make a lot of money so they has a sad :(
Also see having to pay taxes.
Union scale wages for speaking roles are currently as low as $256 a day for low-budget productions and $1,283 per day for productions carrying a $2 million budget or more.
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and the union dues are?
How 'bout those unions, huh? ROTFL!
They can go back to being traveling bands of actors and troubodors and when town gigs slow prostitutes like the days of old!
https://actingmagazine.com/2024/12/how-much-is-the-sag-initiation-fee/
From actingmagazine.com in 2024:
The SAG-AFTRA initiation fee varies depending on the region where you join, but in most major markets like Los Angeles and New York City, the current fee is approximately $3,000 to $4,000. This is a one-time payment required when you first join the union. Members are required to pay annual base dues of $227.42, plus 1.575% of their earnings from union jobs.
Let them eat cake.
Other than when I was in the U.S. Military, I don’t recall ever having a job that included any sort of health care.
Yet I managed to survive.
Always figured it was MY responsibility to see that Doctor bills and hospitalization and prescriptions etc. got paid for somehow. And apparently my employers thought the same.
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