Q & A
Does Social Security Count Toward Income for ObamaCare?
Complete Question: I am on Medicare (66 years old), and married a woman of 58 this past summer. When she was looking into the cost of her insurance, she was told that my income ($1600 per month in Social Security), counted toward her income, so that there was no benefit to her in terms of receiving a credit on the cost of her insurance. Basically, she’d end up paying full price. Is this correct?
Answer: Non-taxable Social Security benefits…Read more…
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