Oops!
Those that receive a premium subsidy from Healthcare.gov are doing so because their income allows them to receive financial assistance to obtain health insurance.
Imagine learning a couple years down the road you were "awarded too much" of a subsidy and now the IRS wants you to give it all back? What if you were also receiving a reduction in cost sharing such as a reduced deductible and you had high utilization of your benefits. Will you have to pay back the difference for that too?
Because of a computer glitch at Healthcare.gov that may very well be the case for hundreds of thousands of people that fall into the mix of over 1 Million people they suspect were calculated incorrectly.
How long will it take the government to calculate the error? They will begin this summer to manually work on the corrections.
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