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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part B · Chapter 157 — Quality, Affordable Health Care for All Americans

§ 18084. Premium tax credit and cost-sharing reduction payments disregarded for Federal and federally-assisted programs

Statutory text

For purposes of determining the eligibility of any individual for benefits or assistance, or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance, under any Federal program or under any State or local program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds—

(1)

any credit or refund allowed or made to any individual by reason of section 36B of title 26 (as added by section 1401) 1 shall not be taken into account as income and shall not be taken into account as resources for the month of receipt and the following 2 months; and

(2)

any cost-sharing reduction payment or advance payment of the credit allowed under such section 36B that is made under section 18071 or 18082 of this title shall be treated as made to the qualified health plan in which an individual is enrolled and not to that individual.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

    Pub. L. 111–148 title I § 1415 · 124 Stat. 119

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 18084

    (Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1415, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 237.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1415, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 237.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 1415. PREMIUM TAX CREDIT AND COST-SHARING REDUCTION PAYMENTS DISREGARDED FOR FEDERAL AND FEDERALLY-ASSISTED PROGRAMS.   For purposes of determining the eligibility of any individual for benefits or assistance, or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance, under any Federal program or under any State or local program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds— (1) any credit or refund allowed or made to any individual by reason of section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by section 1401) shall not be taken into account as income and shall not be taken into account as resources for the month of receipt and the following 2 months; and (2) any cost-sharing reduction payment or advance payment of the credit allowed under such section 36B that is made under section 1402 or 1412 shall be treated as made to the qualified health plan in which an individual is enrolled and not to that individual.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 1401, referred to in par. (1), means section 1401 of Pub. L. 111–148.

Credits

(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1415, , 124 Stat. 237.)

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