Biden administration urged by advocates to spread DACA information widely with marketing plan

Immigration advocates are pushing the Biden administration to make sure DACA recipients know they are eligible for Affordable Care Act Insurance on November 1.

Immigration advocates are asking the Biden administration to take extra steps to make sure immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, know they are eligible to buy Affordable Care Act Insurance.

The Biden administration opened the way for DACA recipients to buy into ACA health plans through a federal regulation that went into effect in May. Like everyone else, DACA recipients can begin enrolling for the subsidized private coverage on Nov. 1.

But Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, deputy director of federal advocacy at United We Dream, an immigration advocacy group, said if DACA recipients are to benefit, then Health and Human Services needs to help get the word out.

“HHS, in conversations that they’ve had with advocates, they’ve said they weren’t going to allocate resources to really advertise this and specifically target DACA recipients,” Macedo do Nascimento told NBC News.

HHS did not provide comment when reached.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/daca-marketing-plan-biden-administration-aca-rcna162614

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