7,000 consumers are in danger of losing health insurance

HARTFORD, Conn. – More than 16,000 households who signed up for private insurance on Connecticut’s insurance exchange are waiting for their financial documents to be verified and another 7,000 are in danger of losing their coverage because they have failed to submit required documents, according to Access Health CT CEO Jim Wadleigh.

There have been about 50 to 75 consumers a week calling Access Health CT in a panic because they have learned they were no longer covered, Wadleigh said Tuesday.

They may have lost coverage because they failed to provide the financial documents necessary to verify their income. But another 16,000 consumers are waiting to have their financial documents verified by Xerox, the Department of Social Services vendor that validates consumers’ information with the federal government. An applicant has 90 days to provide additional verification documents from the time they enroll or to make a change to their income or family size.

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