Health Insurance

[richhart]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? GA
As part of my divorce decree, I am ordered to pay for my wife's Health Insurance. I've been paying it for 10 years now and was wondering if I should be entitled to her Obmacare subsidy since I'm the one paying for the insurance. If not, it seems that she's getting paid twice for the insurance, once by me and once by Obamacare.

As a follow-up, how can I go about finding out how much or whether she's receiving this subsidy?

Thanks for your advice.

Rich

 

[cbg]

If she is not paying for insurance on her own, she is not getting a subsidy.

 

[LdiJ]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? GA
As part of my divorce decree, I am ordered to pay for my wife's Health Insurance. I've been paying it for 10 years now and was wondering if I should be entitled to her Obmacare subsidy since I'm the one paying for the insurance. If not, it seems that she's getting paid twice for the insurance, once by me and once by Obamacare.

As a follow-up, how can I go about finding out how much or whether she's receiving this subsidy?

Thanks for your advice.

Rich

How are you paying for the health insurance? Is she paying for it and you are reimbursing her?...or is there some other way its being handled?

If she purchased her insurance through the exchange and is receiving a subsidy it would simply reduce the cost of the insurance. She would not be getting any kind of extra payment. There is a reconciliation on ones tax return if insurance is being purchased on the exchange, but that is to reconcile the subsidy by any variation in income.

However, if you have been paying for the insurance for 10 years, its kind of unlikely that she purchased it through the exchange. If she did not, then there is no subsidy.

 

[richhart]

She buys the insurance and I reimburse her.

 

[LdiJ]

She buys the insurance and I reimburse her.

Then see the rest of my response.

 

[richhart]

OK. Thanks for your advice.