The health law subsidises care for individuals with incomes of up to 400% of the federal poverty level.
If your Virginia gross income is below the federal poverty level, you get 20% of the federal credit in state tax credits.
Under the law, states can expand Medicaid eligibility to people who have incomes of up to 138% of the federal poverty level.
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Those with incomes from 100-400% of the federal poverty level qualify for sliding-scale subsidies to buy insurance on the new health exchanges.
And the federal subsidies to help families with incomes up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level pay for coverage might still flow.
Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides coverage to the poor and disabled, would be expanded to cover everyone earning less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level.
Part of the extra money would be eaten up by rising health-care costs, but it would also allow SCHIP to be extended to families at up to 300% of the federal poverty level.
But the administration says it wants to create a federal-state partnership that would provide matching funds to states that increase preschool slots for families with incomes of up to twice the federal poverty level.
You will recall the subsidies created in the health care reform act whereby the government will help those who earn less than 400% of the federal poverty level with the money they need to pay for their health insurance when purchased on a health care exchange.
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According to the Federal Interagency Forum on Children and Family Statistics, which is a collaborative effort of 18 federal agencies, 19 percent of children lived in families with incomes below the poverty level in 1997, a proportion that has remained relatively stable for the last two decades.
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