Posted on 06/04/2014 12:36:30 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
About 2 million people enrolled in Obamacare exchanges submitted information that doesn’t match up with federal records, potentially jeopardizing the coverage and federal subsidies for some of them, the Obama administration said Wednesday afternoon.
The news, first reported by The New Republic and The Associated Press citing federal documents, was confirmed by officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees Obamacare programs.
The officials emphasized that discrepancies in people’s application data are unlikely to affect their coverage or the level of subsidies they received. Rather, they’ll have to submit additional documentation to ensure that they’re getting the correct level of tax credits.
(Also on POLITICO: Full health care policy coverage)
Those receiving too great a subsidy could be asked to repay a portion, however, and in some cases, if enrollees don’t provide additional data, their coverage could be rescinded.
“The Marketplace checked to see that consumers are who they said they were, matching Social Security numbers, income and tribal status, among a host of other data points — all to ensure that folks are eligible for coverage and, in many cases, entitled to financial assistance to help them afford their plan … But, while most information the applicant provided lined up, sometimes a name or data point didn’t match up right away with existing records,” CMS spokeswoman Julie Bataille wrote in a blog post.
“For example, a consumer might have recently changed jobs, but the latest IRS tax return data and other data available to the Marketplace didn’t reflect that change in income,” Bataille continued. “In such cases, the law requires us to double and triple check this data in another way.”
The 2 million people asked to provide additional information represent about one in four of the 8 million people who signed up for coverage through ACA exchanges during the 2014 enrollment season. Bataille said those in the process of submitting additional information retain their health coverage in the interim.
The administration also posted an FAQ on HealthCare.gov today for people who are asked to submit more information to their exchanges.
About half of the application discrepancies involved people’s incomes, which often didn’t match their most recent IRS data, according to those news reports. The other half involved immigration or residency status, an issue administration officials attributed to misspelled names or expired documents.
Those receiving too great a subsidy could be asked to repay a portion, however, and in some cases, if enrollees don’t provide additional data, their coverage could be rescinded.
Uh oh.
When the idiot administration used its pen and phone to change the eligibility requirements written into “the law of the land” any fellow idiot could predict this 2 million registration problem. In fact, since the idiot administration said it’s 2 million questionable enrollments you can be sure it’s much much higher.
FORWARD COMRADES!!
“the law of the land”
Who the hell pays any attention to the law anymore?
I thought they only had about 2 million ‘enrollees’. So is that all of them?
2 million incorrect or incomplete applications. One million unpaid. 6 million were previously covered and lost their insurance because of ObamaCare. Where are the alleged winners in this fiasco?
The regime announced 8 million enrolled in Obamacare as of the April 1 ‘deadline’. But the regime is now saying 2 million have incomplete income or other eligibility problems.
This data is from a regime that lies for sport, so God only knows the real truth.
Thanks. Don’t know why I was thinking 2 million. So 1/4 of the applications have something wrong with them. Good average. lol
People lied about their incomes to get the subsidies. Gee, I wonder whom those people voted for in 2012.
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