Shocker!
Via Jamie Dupree (WSB):
If you were thinking about using some of the weekend or the Veterans Day federal holiday on Monday to poke around on healthcare.gov, you can certainly go to the federal health insurance web portal, but you won’t be able to check whether you are eligible for subsidies from the federal government until Tuesday.
“We have been notified by the U.S. federal government that certain Federal Data Services associated with the Hub are down until Tuesday, November 12th,” read a message on the web site of the New York health exchange.
“During this time, you will be unable to receive a real-time determination of eligibility,” a similar warning said from the Vermont exchange.
“You may enter an application, but please save it and return on Tuesday to submit” the Vermont web site suggested.
The decision to take the subsidy check off line from the IRS came as the feds were making more changes to the troubled web site, trying to get it fully running by a self-imposed November 30 deadline.