Assistance program
Affordable Care Act (ACA) – Consumer Assistance Program Grants
-$17,604 committed in FY2018–FY2020
- Agency
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.519
- What it does
- To assist consumers with filing complaints and appeals, assist consumers with enrollment into health coverage, and educate consumers on their rights and responsibilities. In addition, by law they will collect data on consumer inquires and complaints to help the Secretary identify problems in the marketplace and strengthen enforcement. Starting in 2014, programs must also help resolve problems with premium credits for Exchange coverage.
- Who benefits
- Projects will benefit (1) Consumer Assistance Program
- Who applies
- Consumer Assistance program grants are grants to States
- Authorized by
- The Public Health Service Act Section 2793, as amended by Section 1002 of the ACA
- Program site
- http://www.cciio.cms.gov/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
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