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The temporary “enhanced” Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits — the ARPA/IRA-era increases that expanded eligibility above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and reduced required househo...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) cut the uninsured rate and created income‑indexed premium tax credits and cost‑sharing reductions that capped premiums and lowered deductibles for low‑ and middle‑income ...
If Congress allows the ARPA/IRA enhancements to lapse after 2025, the core premium tax credit (PTC) will remain but the expanded eligibility and larger subsidies will end — meaning subsidies would rev...
For 2025 ACA premium tax credits, “household MAGI” starts with your adjusted gross income (AGI) on Form 1040 and then adds back three specific categories if present: untaxed foreign income, non‑taxabl...
The temporary “enhanced” premium tax credits (PTCs) — the ARPA/IRA-era expansions that capped premiums and extended subsidies above 400% of the federal poverty level — are scheduled to expire at the e...
Multiple 2025–2026 proposals would alter how ACA (Obamacare) subsidies, eligibility, and state programs operate in 2026: Republicans in Congress and some Senate proposals seek to replace or repeal maj...
If Congress allows the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire after 2025, millions will face higher premiums and some will lose eligibility entirely — analysts project roughly 4–4.8 million newly ...
States with lower benchmark premiums and large enhanced credits tend to get the biggest subsidy-per-enrollee boosts today; analyses show enhanced credits added roughly $76 per member per month on aver...
If Congress allows the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire at the end of 2025, analysts say average marketplace enrollees would see premium payments rise by about 114% in 2026 — from roughly $8...
Ending the enhanced ACA premium subsidies would sharply raise premiums and reduce eligibility: KFF and reporting estimate the average subsidized enrollee’s annual out‑of‑pocket premium would rise from...
The 2017 tax law eliminated the ACA’s federal individual mandate penalty effective 2019, a change the Congressional Budget Office estimated would raise the uninsured by millions and push up individual...
CMS and other federal guidance for 2026 instructed insurers to prepare dual rate scenarios and made reconciliation rules stricter: issuers were told to file rates both assuming CSR payments remain unf...
Benchmark premiums are the second‑lowest cost Silver plan (SLCSP) in a local Marketplace and they set the dollar amount from which premium tax credits are calculated; the tax credit equals the benchma...
If Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits (ePTCs) that were enacted under ARPA and extended through 2025 to expire, multiple analyses project sharply higher out‑of‑pocket marketplace premium...
Congressional enhanced ACA premium tax credits — expanded under ARPA and extended through 2025 by the Inflation Reduction Act — are scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2025, returning subsidies to pre...
States and some jurisdictions have already used their own funds or exchange rules to blunt the 2026 cut in enhanced ACA premium tax credits: Vermont explicitly runs state-funded enhanced subsidies, an...
No single, authoritative count of how many multinational firms reshored or offshored operations in the U.S. between 2017 and 2025 is presented in the available sources; most reporting and industry dat...
The American Rescue Plan (ARPA) temporarily expanded and increased ACA premium tax credits beginning in 2021 by removing the 400%-of-poverty income cap and capping benchmark-plan premiums as a share o...
The enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) first expanded by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 were , so many people with incomes above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL) who gained eligibility u...
Reinstating strict income caps (the 400% federal poverty level cutoff) or raising the minimum required premium contribution would sharply narrow who qualifies for premium tax credits and push many mid...