Assistance program
State Health Insurance Assistance Program
$448.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Community Living (Acl), Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 93.324
- What it does
- To provide information, counseling, and assistance relating to obtaining adequate and appropriate health insurance coverage to individuals eligible to receive benefits under the Medicare program.
- Who benefits
- Individuals eligible for Medicare benefits, including Part D drug benefits, and older persons eligible for benefits and services provided under Medicare, their families, and caregivers.
- Who applies
- Grants or cooperative agreements may be made to States and U.S. Territories with approved State regulatory programs under section 1882 of the Social Security Act.
- Authorized by
- Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-76) Section 4360 of Public Law 101-508 (42 USC 1995b-4) 42 CFR Ch. IV Subpart E – Beneficiary Counseling and Assistance Grants, Public Law 113-76.
- Program site
- http://www.acl.hhs.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments