Some taxpayers still waiting for corrected ObamaCare forms

The Obama administration said Friday that not all of the 800,000 people given incorrect tax information for their ObamaCare plans have received their corrected forms. 

Some people are still waiting for the correct forms, needed to file their taxes, despite the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) previously saying that they would arrive in the “first week of March.”

{mosads}On a conference call with reporters, Kevin Counihan, the CMS chief executive of the ObamaCare marketplace was asked if it is correct that none of the amended forms had gone out yet. 

“We’re tracking to get those corrected forms out on time,” he replied, while saying more information would be released. 

Andy Slavitt, the acting CMS administrator, also on the call, then said, it is “not correct” that none of the forms had gone out. Neither official elaborated. 

Asked after the call for clarification and about the previous time frame of the first week of March, CMS spokesman Aaron Albright said the agency is “in the process” of sending out the corrected forms. He reiterated that more information will be released. 

It was a setback for the Obama administration, seized on by Republicans, when it announced in February that an error had led 800,000 people to receive incorrect tax information. 

At the time, White House press secretary Josh Earnest pointed to a short time frame for getting out the corrected forms. 

“This should have no impact on the ability of people to file their taxes on time,” Earnest said at the Feb. 20 briefing. “I would anticipate — HHS has said that they anticipate that they’d be able to send these updated forms in the next couple of weeks. So it would be ample time for people to file in advance of April 15th.”

The miscalculation led some people to receive too much of a tax credit and some people too little. The administration asked people to delay filing their taxes until receiving the corrected forms. 

However, 50,000 people had already filed their taxes. The Treasury Department announced last month that people who mistakenly received too much of a refund will be allowed to keep the extra money.