Question: My mother (64) is an immigrant and lives with me and my family, and makes 0 income. I have claimed her as a tax dependent on my 2011 and 2012 returns, though she files her own returns with 0 income. When I created a CoveredCA account for her, I used MY income as the household income, which precluded her from receiving subsidized insurance either through the exchange plans or through Medi-Cal. The definition of household income here is unclear. Any insight on what's the right definition here for household income?
Answer: Assuming your mother has legal resident status, she is eligible for Medi-Cal. Her application has to be changed to a 1-person household with $0 income and she has to agree to file a tax return in 2014 as "single" status. You need to stop claiming her as a dependent. You can't have it both ways.
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So I registered for covered California, selected a plan, got the bill and paid it, then when I went to log into covered california and I realized I forgot my user name. so I opened the chat, waited about an hour, and the person I was chatting with said that my email address doesn’t show on file. How could this have happened? I’ve been waiting now for about a week for a response.