“intentionally skip paying your utilities bill for a month. You can then show a hardship and then you can get your Obamacare free and subsidized.”
You have to have received a shut-off notice,which usually doesn’t go out after one month of not paying the utility——and the hardship exemption just cover the charge for NOT HAVING insurance.
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But apparently, he figured it out and gets his insurance subsidized. I haven’t talked with him about it since so maybe it didn’t work for him after all.
He also was working with a broker. Sounds like the broker was a con artist, too. Maybe the broker gave him the pointer.
We tried using a broker — a waste of time. We already knew as much as he did.