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If you all enroll in the same plan, you would only be eligible for a plan with a 73 percent actuarial value; that is the lowest-value plan for which all of you would qualify in this situation.
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You can all enroll in the same family plan, and your daughter can apply her premium tax credit to reduce her share of the premium for that family plan, but your daughter would lose her eligibility for cost-sharing reductions. If two individuals (or two separate households) qualify for different levels of cost-sharing assistance, or if one qualifies and the other doesn’t, and if they want to be covered under the same plan, they must select a plan that provides the level of cost-sharing reduction that they all would qualify for. In this case, since you do not qualify for any help with cost sharing, the three of you could only enroll together in a plan without cost sharing subsidies.
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Yes. The Marketplace will allocate the monthly advance payment across the two plans. In most cases the Marketplace will allocate the monthly advance payment in proportion to the premiums for the two plans.
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Yes. Although the general rule is that people are not eligible for Marketplace subsidies when they are also eligible for affordable job-based health coverage, there is a special rule for young adults. As long as a young adult is not claimed as a tax dependent by her parents, the availability of dependent coverage under her parents’ health plan does not affect her eligibility for premium tax credits in the Marketplace.
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Because you are not married, you will be considered two separate households for the purposes of determining eligibility for premium tax credits and Medicaid. Assuming that neither of you are claiming any dependents on your tax returns, you will each be considered as a household of one and your own income will be used to determine eligibility for premium tax credits and Medicaid as well as the amount of any premium tax credit and cost-sharing reduction you may qualify for. If you are eligible for premium tax credits, you will each receive a separate determination of the amount of your credit and whether you are eligible for a cost-sharing reduction. Whether you can use your credits to buy a family policy rather than two individual policies will depend on the offerings in your state Marketplace.
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If an applicant did not file taxes in a prior year, income will be verified by the Marketplace through use of electronic wage data. If the information cannot be verified electronically, the applicant may be asked to submit additional paper documentation within 90 days, such as pay stubs, a work contract or other verification of income.
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One challenge a young adult may face in her first year of independent tax filing is verifying income, since one of the prime sources of income data is a prior year tax return. However, other methods of verification are available; for instance, the Marketplace will have access to monthly wage data that can verify current income. In the case of someone who is self-employed or who has fluctuating income, additional documentation of income may be accepted.
The fact that a young adult has not filed in the past will not prevent her from receiving premium tax credits. When she applies, if the Marketplace cannot verify her income right away, she will receive a provisional (temporary) eligibility determination based on the income information she puts in her application. The Marketplace will then give her a period of time (usually 90 days) to provide additional documentation of income. Current pay stubs, bank deposit records, or other documentation may be appropriate, depending on her situation.
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You should file your federal income tax return for 2017 as soon as possible. Then log into your Marketplace account, update your application information, and tell the Marketplace that you have filed your taxes by attesting to that question on the application. Keep in mind that the Marketplace will check with the IRS during the coverage year to verify your return was filed and, if it cannot verify, will terminate your premium tax credit.
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Yes in most cases. People who have not filed a tax return before can qualify for a premium tax credit. However, there is a requirement to file a return for the tax year in which you receive a premium tax credit. If you got an advanced premium tax credit last year, you must file a federal income tax return for that year to be eligible to receive an advance premium tax credit next year.