On Feb. 8, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report that stated approximately 470,000 individuals who were awarded tax credits in place of insurance premiums did not provide proof of citizenship, legal status or lawful presence — all conditions for receiving a refund from the Internal Revenue Service.
A Republican lawmaker has given the Obama administration 30 days to create and share a plan for how it will recapture $750 million in tax credits wrongfully awarded to illegal immigrants.
In a letter that Tenn. Rep. Diane Black shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner on Thursday, the congresswoman asks Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell how the government agency intends to fix the situation, both by getting back the lost funds and preventing it from happening next year.
“I would like to know what is being done to rectify this situation and how you would intend to recapture the money that has been issued in error. I would also like to know how the ‘pay and chase’ protocol, a system that is well-known to be broken, has become an Administration-supported part of ‘statutory guidelines,'” Black, a 40-year veteran of the healthcare industry, wrote in the letter sent Thursday.
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