The other day we reported that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent out letters prior to the Obamacare enrollment deadline, advising Americans that they had “started” Obamacare applications for individuals without their knowledge or consent.
HHS admitted in a letter to also obtaining personal information from the state agencies tasked to try to sign Americans up for Obamacare at their respective state exchanges.HHS, through the Veterans Administration quickly mailed out the letters to Veterans before the deadline, in hopes that they would quickly sign up for healthcare coverage and veteran benefits.
This particular letter to veterans did not state that their Obamacare applications were already started, but it did outline the seemingly new and overly-intrusive personal finance requirements Veterans are asked to disclose during the enrollment process.
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Not every veteran is required to fill out the “required” financial disclosure form (July 2013) provided by the VA, but the administrations new disclosure reads:
You are not required to disclose your financial information; however, VA is not currently enrolling new applicants who decline to provide their financial information unless they have other qualifying eligibility factors.
If a financial assessment is not used to determine your priority for enrollment you may choose not to disclose your information.However, if a financial assessment is used to determine your eligibility for cost-free medication, travel assistance or waiver of the travel deductible, and you do not disclose your financial information, you will not be eligible for these benefits.
The actual application requires that veterans disclose the following:
• Gross annual income from employment, except for income from your farm, ranch, property or business. Include your wages, bonuses, tips, severance pay and other accrued benefits and your child’s income information if it could have been used to pay
your household expenses.
• Net income from your farm, ranch, property, or business.
• Other income amounts, including retirement and pension income, Social Security Retirement and Social Security Disability income, compensation benefits such as VA disability, unemployment, Workers and black lung, cash gifts, interest and dividends, including tax exempt earnings and distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) or annuities.
I never knew that a veteran needed to disclose all of this personal financial information just to apply for Obamacare benefits through the VA?
Republican congressional candidate and Navy veteran, Jorge Bonilla, sent over this very application and letter from the VA he received in the mail about two weeks ago.The cover letter states that if the veteran is eligible for benefits, he or she will be put in touch with one of the programs “providers,” before having to complete the “first physical,” which is the final step in the enrollment process.
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