Please see the possible exemptions below in the screen shots. In addition, there are hardship exemptions.
Following are all
hardship exemptions, with links to details, forms, and instructions.
- You were homeless
- You were evicted or were facing eviction or
foreclosure
- You received a shut-off notice
from a utility company
- You experienced domestic violence
- You experienced the death of a
family member
- You experienced a fire, flood, or
other natural or human-caused disaster that caused substantial damage to your property
- You filed for bankruptcy
- You had medical expenses you couldn’t
pay that
resulted in substantial debt
- You experienced unexpected increases in
necessary expenses due to caring for an ill, disabled, or aging family
member
- You claim a child as a tax
dependent who’s been denied coverage for Medicaid and CHIP for 2016, and another person
is required by court order to give medical support to the child. In this
case you don’t have to pay the penalty for the child.
- As a result of an eligibility
appeals decision, you’re eligible for enrollment in a qualified health plan (QHP)
through the Marketplace, lower costs on your monthly premiums, or
cost-sharing reductions for a time period when you weren’t enrolled in a
QHP through the Marketplace in 2016
- You were determined ineligible for
Medicaid because your state didn’t expand eligibility for Medicaid in 2016 under the Affordable Care
Act
-
Your
"grandfathered" individual insurance plan (a plan you’ve had
since March 23, 2010 or before) was cancelled because it doesn’t meet the
requirements of the Affordable Care Act and you believe other Marketplace plans are
unaffordable
- You had another hardship. If
you experienced another hardship obtaining health insurance, use this form to describe
your hardship and apply for an exemption