{"id":9,"date":"2026-09-29T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/discover-if-you-qualify-for-a-500-obamacare-refund\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:52:28","slug":"discover-if-you-qualify-for-a-500-obamacare-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/discover-if-you-qualify-for-a-500-obamacare-refund\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover If You Qualify for a $500 Obamacare Refund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Nearly 1 million Americans who bought Obamacare plans through HealthCare.gov without premium assistance in 30 federal exchange states will receive $500 refunds starting October 2026. The refunds address excessive user fees collected during the Biden administration. The payment is a flat amount from surplus fees, not based on individual overpayment. While helpful, the one-time $500 refund offers limited relief amid rising insurance premiums and costs.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/500-obamacare-refund-eligible-133016000.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1 million Americans who bought Obamacare plans through HealthCare.gov without premium assistance in 30 federal exchange states will receive $500 refunds starting October 2026. The refunds address excessive user fees collected during the Biden administration. The payment is a flat amount from surplus fees, not based on individual overpayment. While helpful, the one-time $500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","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\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}