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Update your Healthcare.gov profile

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The American Rescue Act (ARA) significantly lowered the amount of money everyone has to pay for the benchmark plan that they purchased on Healthcare.gov for all of 2021 and all of 2022.  Healthcare.gov is not automatically processing subsidy redeterminations at this time.  Individuals need to go into their accounts and refresh their data to force a subsidy redetermination through.  This process opened up yesterday, April 1st and will be available throughout the year.  It is a forward looking process and it can be quite large.

The case in the tweet is for a family of three with two people in their mid-50s who had a Bronze plan see a 98% reduction in premium. That is a bit extreme. But for people who are in their mid-50s who earned just over 400% FPL and who bought a plan priced well below the local benchmark, these types of premium reductions are plausible. For more people, the reductions are going to be smaller. However, ASPE, the Department of Health and Human Service policy and evaluation team, has projected a massive increase in the availability of zero premium plans for people who are currently uninsured.

Update your Healthcare.gov profile

Updating your Healthcare.gov profiles will lead to an immediately decrease in premiums for anyone who does not have a zero premium plan already. The process is currently forward looking only, so for people who bought Exchange plans that started before April 1, 2021, you should see a significant reconciliation payment on your taxes next spring to make you whole.

For people who live in states that operate their own marketplaces (California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey etc) each state exchange is doing their own thing. It will never hurt to go in and update your account but don’t rely on doing that as a one time thing. You may need to monitor your premiums to see if they change.

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  1. 1.

    Butch

    Sorry to ask a question about something that should be obvious, but I went on the site and it’s not clear how I refresh the information needed so that I can be considered? (The policy is actually for spouse but the account is under my name.)

  3. 3.

    Julie

    According to an email I received from the Washington state exchange, “The majority of current customers will not need to take action to receive additional tax credits and will see changes reflected in their June premiums. Customers will receive notification from Washington Healthplanfinder in April if any additional information is needed.”

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    This is a big deal. I hope the message is getting out.

    Also, a big deal for 2020 tax returns with Excess Advance Premium Tax Credit. Quick version:

    IRS Issues Guidance on Excess Advance Premium Tax Credit Repayments

    Included in the recently enacted American Rescue Plan was a provision that waived the repayment obligation when the reconciliation on Form 8962 resulted in additional tax.

    In order to implement this change, the IRS has given guidance that federal returns no longer need to include Form 8962 with the return if there is an excess advance premium tax credit repayment calculated on line 29, Form 8962.

    I got this as a memo from a tax site I use. More info may be on the IRS web site.

    More later.

  6. 6.

    wetzel

    If anyone figures out the steps, please post these in the thread. For an old person like me, the prospect of calling a bureaucracy’s phone system for something like this is an open invitation to hypertension.

  7. 7.

    ProfDamatu

    I just went on Healthcare.gov to do the update, using the Report a Change item. I actually did have to report a change to my income (it’s probably going to be about $7k higher than initially reported, assuming that all of my classes make). I’d guess that one could do the same and just enter some basically meaningless income change to trigger the recalculation.

    Interestingly, when everything was recalculated, I’m only going to be saving about $30 a month compared to what I was paying before for the same plan. Given that I’m dropping down below 8% of income to premiums (from the previous 9.83%) I had assumed that the additional $7k in income wouldn’t make that much difference. But every little bit helps!

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