HealthCare.gov Is Making Life Difficult For Victims of Domestic Abuse and Twins

Married people that file taxes separately from their spouses are at an impasse with ObamaCare.

According to the Washington Post, spouses who file taxes separately, many of which do so because of domestic abuse, are blocked from using HealthCare.gov.

The latest problems don’t stop there. Parents of twins are finding that the website won’t accept family members with the same birthdate.

The IRS has repeatedly said they would fix these problems, yet two years after their commitment to doing so, and 5 months after the launch of ObamaCare’s website, they remain unfixed.

Will the IRS – and ObamaCare officials – ever fix the problems they claim to be on top of?

From the Washington Post:

In May 2012, when the Internal Revenue Service proposed its rules for Americans to get government subsidies for health insurance, officials acknowledged that a legal quirk needed to be fixed: The Affordable Care Act was written in a way that inadvertently denied such help to some people who live apart from spouses who abuse them, are in prison or are on the cusp of a divorce.

The problem is that the law’s authors, in creating tax credits to help pay for health plans bought through the new insurance marketplaces, had overlooked the fact that some married people file their tax returns separately.

The IRS said in the preamble to those 2012 rules that it would correct the mistake, yet in the nearly two years since then, the Treasury Department has not made the change. And battered spouses have become the leading edge of a small army of people — legally married but filing taxes on their own — stepping up pressure to get an equal chance at affordable health plans.