emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
(A)
One of the hardship exemptions under ACA is Domestic Violence which doesn't require documentation,
but must apply to conditions between Jan 1, 2013 and Dec 31, 2015 to apply to tax year 2015, and
requires filling out a form with the Marketplace. (I looked up the form and it requires no documents for this provision on the checklist, but requires other personal information to be registered with the federal program.)
https://www.healthcare.gov/exemptions-tool/#/results/2015/details/domestic-violence
How to claim an exemption due to domestic violence
If you experienced domestic violence between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2015, you qualify for a health coverage exemption.
This means you don’t have to pay the fee for the months you were affected by domestic violence.
What you need to know about this exemption
(B)
According to the Dept of Justice website,
domestic violence includes psychological and economic abuse:
Domestic Violence | OVW | Department of Justice
WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
We define domestic violence as a
pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.
Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.
Physical Abuse: Hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting, hair pulling, etc are types of physical abuse. This type of abuse also includes denying a partner medical care or forcing alcohol and/or drug use upon him or her.
Sexual Abuse: Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent. Sexual abuse includes, but is certainly not limited to, marital rape, attacks on sexual parts of the body, forcing sex after physical violence has occurred, or treating one in a sexually demeaning manner.
Emotional Abuse: Undermining an individual's sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem is abusive. This may include, but is not limited to constant criticism, diminishing one's abilities, name-calling, or damaging one's relationship with his or her children.
Economic Abuse: Is defined as making or attempting to make an individual financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding one's access to money, or forbidding one's attendance at school or employment.
Psychological Abuse: Elements of psychological abuse include - but are not limited to - causing fear by intimidation; threatening physical harm to self, partner, children, or partner's family or friends; destruction of pets and property; and forcing isolation from family, friends, or school and/or work.
Domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. Domestic violence affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Domestic violence occurs in both opposite-sex and same-sex relationships and can happen to intimate partners who are married, living together, or dating.
Domestic violence not only affects those who are abused, but also has a substantial effect on family members, friends, co-workers, other witnesses, and the community at large. Children, who grow up witnessing domestic violence, are among those seriously affected by this crime. Frequent exposure to violence in the home not only predisposes children to numerous social and physical problems, but also teaches them that violence is a normal way of life - therefore, increasing their risk of becoming society's next generation of victims and abusers.
Sources: National Domestic Violence Hotline, National Center for Victims of Crime, and WomensLaw.org.
(C) I was covered for most of last year 2015 under my company's plan before my job ended (I was advised that being insured for 10 of the 12 months is enough to avoid a fine, but I will look that up again, if it's 2 months that coverage can be skipped)
For this year 2016
I want to establish if the political act of imposing these mandates against the will, belief, consent, inclusion, representation and equal protection of citizens counts is a form of "Domestic Violence" by political abuse of federal authority to intimidate and control people to force them to comply with ACA health mandates, to withhold money, and undermining self-worth by denying their political beliefs the ACA violates.
This is systemic, has caused extreme stress, depression, PTSD, similar to legal abuse syndrome.
If this can possibly count, I would like to collect names of other people claiming this abuse as exemption.
Perhaps others are not as affected as I have been. I have been under undue stress, since my salary was needed to save an endangered historic community from destruction by the same pattern of political abuse.
The ADDED THREAT of being fined, of having to face yet another legal battle over defending rights from this level of political abuse by the Democratic Party, has caused me extreme stress, fear, intimidation -- on top of having to work two jobs to pay for the damage already done. This mandate added to that abuse, including the fear of losing my job that had allowed me to access insurance and avoid this conflict of beliefs and interest.
I spent several months at a time, going through periods of "political depression" that made it harder for me to work as needed to pay for the damages done to the historic district where I live by Democratic leadership.
The economic, psychological and coercive pressure has been abusive already, before this escalation.
I would say the federal govt has been instigating and sustaining a "pattern of psychological abuse and economic coercion" to control and intimidate taxpayers whose Constitutional beliefs and liberties are oppressed by this ACA mandate itself.
If this argument will count, I will ask the elected Precinct Chair of the Democratic Party in my district to sign an affidavit that I have been a victim of this level of abuse, and the Republican business leader in our district who might join me in such a complaint of chronic abuse by federal govt of political power to oppress and intimidate.
So the two partners in the abusive relationship are the federal govt and the people.
Anyone else feel like a government abuse victim? Besides me?
One of the hardship exemptions under ACA is Domestic Violence which doesn't require documentation,
but must apply to conditions between Jan 1, 2013 and Dec 31, 2015 to apply to tax year 2015, and
requires filling out a form with the Marketplace. (I looked up the form and it requires no documents for this provision on the checklist, but requires other personal information to be registered with the federal program.)
https://www.healthcare.gov/exemptions-tool/#/results/2015/details/domestic-violence
How to claim an exemption due to domestic violence
If you experienced domestic violence between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2015, you qualify for a health coverage exemption.
This means you don’t have to pay the fee for the months you were affected by domestic violence.
What you need to know about this exemption
- This is considered a “hardship” that kept you from getting health coverage.
- To qualify for this exemption during 2015, domestic violence must have occurred between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2015.
- You’ll need to fill out a paper application and mail it in to the Marketplace.
- You don’t need to provide any documentation to claim this exemption.
- You can use one application to claim this exemption for anyone you’ll list on your same federal income tax return who qualifies.
- If experiencing domestic violence didn’t keep you from getting health coverage for the entire year, you may be able to claim another hardship exemption that covers you for other months with the same application.
(B)
According to the Dept of Justice website,
domestic violence includes psychological and economic abuse:
Domestic Violence | OVW | Department of Justice
WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
We define domestic violence as a
pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner.
Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.
Physical Abuse: Hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting, hair pulling, etc are types of physical abuse. This type of abuse also includes denying a partner medical care or forcing alcohol and/or drug use upon him or her.
Sexual Abuse: Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent. Sexual abuse includes, but is certainly not limited to, marital rape, attacks on sexual parts of the body, forcing sex after physical violence has occurred, or treating one in a sexually demeaning manner.
Emotional Abuse: Undermining an individual's sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem is abusive. This may include, but is not limited to constant criticism, diminishing one's abilities, name-calling, or damaging one's relationship with his or her children.
Economic Abuse: Is defined as making or attempting to make an individual financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding one's access to money, or forbidding one's attendance at school or employment.
Psychological Abuse: Elements of psychological abuse include - but are not limited to - causing fear by intimidation; threatening physical harm to self, partner, children, or partner's family or friends; destruction of pets and property; and forcing isolation from family, friends, or school and/or work.
Domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. Domestic violence affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Domestic violence occurs in both opposite-sex and same-sex relationships and can happen to intimate partners who are married, living together, or dating.
Domestic violence not only affects those who are abused, but also has a substantial effect on family members, friends, co-workers, other witnesses, and the community at large. Children, who grow up witnessing domestic violence, are among those seriously affected by this crime. Frequent exposure to violence in the home not only predisposes children to numerous social and physical problems, but also teaches them that violence is a normal way of life - therefore, increasing their risk of becoming society's next generation of victims and abusers.
Sources: National Domestic Violence Hotline, National Center for Victims of Crime, and WomensLaw.org.
(C) I was covered for most of last year 2015 under my company's plan before my job ended (I was advised that being insured for 10 of the 12 months is enough to avoid a fine, but I will look that up again, if it's 2 months that coverage can be skipped)
For this year 2016
I want to establish if the political act of imposing these mandates against the will, belief, consent, inclusion, representation and equal protection of citizens counts is a form of "Domestic Violence" by political abuse of federal authority to intimidate and control people to force them to comply with ACA health mandates, to withhold money, and undermining self-worth by denying their political beliefs the ACA violates.
This is systemic, has caused extreme stress, depression, PTSD, similar to legal abuse syndrome.
If this can possibly count, I would like to collect names of other people claiming this abuse as exemption.
Perhaps others are not as affected as I have been. I have been under undue stress, since my salary was needed to save an endangered historic community from destruction by the same pattern of political abuse.
The ADDED THREAT of being fined, of having to face yet another legal battle over defending rights from this level of political abuse by the Democratic Party, has caused me extreme stress, fear, intimidation -- on top of having to work two jobs to pay for the damage already done. This mandate added to that abuse, including the fear of losing my job that had allowed me to access insurance and avoid this conflict of beliefs and interest.
I spent several months at a time, going through periods of "political depression" that made it harder for me to work as needed to pay for the damages done to the historic district where I live by Democratic leadership.
The economic, psychological and coercive pressure has been abusive already, before this escalation.
I would say the federal govt has been instigating and sustaining a "pattern of psychological abuse and economic coercion" to control and intimidate taxpayers whose Constitutional beliefs and liberties are oppressed by this ACA mandate itself.
If this argument will count, I will ask the elected Precinct Chair of the Democratic Party in my district to sign an affidavit that I have been a victim of this level of abuse, and the Republican business leader in our district who might join me in such a complaint of chronic abuse by federal govt of political power to oppress and intimidate.
So the two partners in the abusive relationship are the federal govt and the people.
Anyone else feel like a government abuse victim? Besides me?