{"id":103,"date":"2026-10-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:00:00","slug":"am-i-eligible-for-a-500-health-insurance-refund-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/18\/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>If you use the federal Healthcare.gov exchange and don&#039;t receive subsidies, you might be one of the roughly 1 million Americans set to receive a $500 refund this October. This one-time rebate comes from excess user fees that had previously increased premiums, and it will be issued automatically\u2014no extra steps needed on your part. As someone who is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of those navigating health coverage, I always want you to be informed about updates like these that could impact your budget and peace of mind.<\/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>If you use the federal Healthcare.gov exchange and don&#039;t receive subsidies, you might be one of the roughly 1 million Americans set to receive a $500 refund this October. This one-time rebate comes from excess user fees that had previously increased premiums, and it will be issued automatically\u2014no extra steps needed on your part. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstersinsuranceagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}