The rest of this family’s annual premium–$9,355—would be covered by the federal government in the form of subsidy payments that the Treasury would send directly to the family’s insurance company.
But, continuing our hypothetical example, this mom and dad each get a 50-cent raise in their annual salaries. As a result of those 50-cent raises, their household income climbs an entire dollar to $110,281—putting their household income exactly $1 over 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.
When this $1 increase in household income is plugged into the Kaiser Family Foundation subsidy calculator, the calculator accurately notes that the family no longer qualifies for Obamacare’s 9.5-percent-of-household income cap on their health-insurance premiums.