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By Misa Bailey, Healthcare Project Manager at SC Appleseed Legal Justice Center If you are no longer shopping on the Marketplace or you cannot afford the plan that you had in 2025, you may be feeling overwhelmed by potential options. Maybe you’ve looked at prices and thought, I can’t afford this. Do I have to…
Written by Misa Bailey, Healthcare Program Manager at SC Appleseed Blog Summary: In this blog, we discuss the changes in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace. The changes are from both the H.R.1 bill this summer and rule changes by announced by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Some of the rule changes will…
Written by Misa Bailey, Healthcare Program Manager at SC Appleseed Blog Summary: There are many recent and upcoming changes to immigrant health coverage. First, DACA recipients are losing Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace eligibility. There is also a major cut in who qualifies for Medicaid, Medicare, and premium tax credits (PTCs) under the ACA. By…
Written by Misa Bailey, Healthcare Program Manager at SC Appleseed Blog Summary: There are four changes to the ACA Marketplace happening on August 25, 2025, two permanent, and two temporary through the end of 2026. The changes include the need to pay past premiums to start a new policy, less time to handle income issues…
The latest Congressional Budget Office report estimates that the current spending package will add over $3.4 trillion to the debt. COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Over 50+ South Carolina organizations united to call on South Carolina’s Congressional leaders to protect Medicaid, ACA and SNAP from harmful cuts. The list of organizations supporting the letter to South…
HOTLINE FOR QUESTIONS AND ASSISTANCE (only for SC residents who have questions about SNAP and Medicaid): 803-779-1113 x115MORE INFO HERE: https://www.nlada.org/USDA-DFAP/award-recipients Soon the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) will be providing financial assistance to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners who experienced discrimination by USDA in USDA’s farm lending prior…
During the pandemic, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare issued a Public Health Emergency (PHE). This meant that no one could be taken off of Medicaid during that time. It has been announced that on May 11, 2023 the PHE will be ending. The state of South Carolina began sending out Medicaid renewal forms beginning…
“My situation throughout life really has been around substance abuse and mental health,” says Michelle. “I have worked long periods of time, been able to maintain jobs so on and so forth… been able to take care of myself, live on my own, had money, so and on and so forth. But with substance abuse,…
Maya is an aspiring entrepreneur and mother of three. When we spoke with her, her youngest had just turned 4 months old. Over the years she’s worked many jobs: she was a certified nursing assistant, she worked in hospice care, and she’s done rehabilitation and home health. She found her passion as a bakery assistant…
Amara recently shared the difficulties she has faced as a tenant facing eviction. As she continued to share her experiences, it became clear that challenges with her landlord were not the only issues that she has had to overcome. From housing to healthcare, a variety of issues often go hand in hand. And for Amara…
