Due to the glitch, which HHS reported the afternoon of Feb. 14, and resolved about six hours later, some people weren’t able to get their income verified so they could enroll on HealthCare.gov and at least some state exchanges by the Feb. 15 deadline, according to the report.
“We resolved the systems issues that prevented some consumers from submitting their applications,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Katie Hill said Feb. 14 in a statement used in the report. “Consumers who were impacted should log in to their marketplace account now and click on their 2015 application to finish it and complete their enrollment for health coverage.”
Charles Gaba, a data expert who runs ACASignups.net, told USA Today he expected about 500,000 people to enroll Feb. 14, although it is not clear how many were successful. He also said in the report that Minnesota, Vermont, Kentucky, Idaho, Hawaii and Washington, D.C. had all announced extensions by the evening of Feb. 15.
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