{"id":22683,"date":"2015-04-02T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22683"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:58:29","slug":"obamacare%e2%80%99s-subsidy-%e2%80%9cclawback%e2%80%9d-feature-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22683\/obamacare%e2%80%99s-subsidy-%e2%80%9cclawback%e2%80%9d-feature-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare\u2019s Subsidy \u201cClawback\u201d Feature Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Payne at <em>The Federalist<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/04\/02\/trying-to-better-yourself-obamacare-will-end-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">a must-read article<\/a> explaining the perverse and punitive feature of ObamaCare that allows the federal government to \u201cclawback\u201d subsidy amounts from eligible recipients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re flat broke at the beginning of the year and accept tax credits from ObamaCare for several months, then find a high-paying job with health insurance halfway through the year and make enough money to put yourself over the subsidy threshold, you\u2019ll owe back every penny of those subsidies you received come tax season, even though you had no money when you received them,\u201d writes Payne.<\/p>\n<p>ObamaCare\u2019s critics have warned that the law would discourage people from getting better paying jobs for fear of losing their health insurance subsidy. In practice, it looks like the penalty on work could be even worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Payne at The Federalist has a must-read article explaining the perverse and punitive feature of ObamaCare that allows the federal government to \u201cclawback\u201d subsidy amounts from eligible recipients. \u201cIf you\u2019re flat broke at the beginning of the year and accept tax credits from ObamaCare for several months, then find a high-paying job with health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4650,3308,735,35,3005,2249],"class_list":["post-22683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-clawback","tag-health","tag-irs","tag-obamacare","tag-penalty","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22686,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22683\/revisions\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}