{"id":28,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"am-i-eligible-for-a-500-health-insurance-refund-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/am-i-eligible-for-a-500-health-insurance-refund-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I eligible for a $500 health insurance refund? What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>About 1 million Americans in 30 states using the federal Healthcare.gov exchange without subsidies will receive a one-time $500 rebate due to excess user fees that increased premiums. The 2026 fee was 2.5%, set to drop to 1.9% in 2027. Those in states with their own marketplaces or receiving subsidies are not eligible. No application is required; payments will be issued in October.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/09\/am-i-eligible-for-a-500-health-insurance-refund-what-you-need-to-know.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1 million Americans in 30 states using the federal Healthcare.gov exchange without subsidies will receive a one-time $500 rebate due to excess user fees that increased premiums. The 2026 fee was 2.5%, set to drop to 1.9% in 2027. Those in states with their own marketplaces or receiving subsidies are not eligible. No application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}