What is the mechanism for this proposed ACA income verification?

[cthulu2016]

re: all the talk of adding income verification as part of Senate deal.

What would be the specific, practical method? What would the legislation actually say?

(This is the kind of thing that could be anything from window-dressing to ACA-crippling nightmare depending on the details. Hence the question.)

[NYC_SKP]

1. Think of it as Voter ID except with healthcare: 50 ways to disenfranchise the poor.

They know damn well that the poorest among us have the greatest difficulty proving anything while those with wealth can just ask a slave to do it for them.

It's just one more reason for universal single-payer, if you ask me.

[jberryhill]

2. You have to produce paystubs for $0 if unemployed

[BootinUp]

4. good answer! LOL.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. When I was trained last month

The exact system was not named but it was explained how it worked. The term used was trusted data sources and it appeared to primarily use IRS/Tax data. For example if you are asked what your gross annual income is and the entry you make is a certain percentage off what the IRS shows then you will have to provide more specific data including pay stubs etc. If the entries you make are within acceptable parameters then your information is considered verified. My office will begin taking applications in December. All caseworkes are scheduled for additional training in November for our agencies application software. Our initial training was introductory to the ACA and our public website.

[cthulu2016]

6. Thanks for the info. Whatever is being contemplated will

be more than that, since your training would have been for current law. (Meaning, if verification is part of a new deal it would be a level of verification that does not currently exist.)

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. It's a stupid face-saving head fake. You can't "verify" next year's income. Period.

Your 2013 income is verified by doing your taxes in 2014. The health care tax credit to which you were entitled is adjusted at that time.

[legcramp]

8. I don't know the details, but it's not proposed.

It's already in place. The administration has waived it for a year.