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Agent Lied About My Income To Get Me A Marketplace Plan, Now I Will Owe Upwards Of $5000 To The Irs

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Location: Oklahoma

I am really not sure what to do. Just got off the phone with the marketplace people and they told me that I should have never been on a marketplace plan but just Medicaid. And that I will have to pay back like $900 / month I had this current insurance plus more for the previous years. For reference I am disabled but not Medicare eligible, I get Social Security but it's always been a struggle to get through most months without help from others.

A few years ago when my Medicare ran out my parents got me in contact with an insurance agent. He got me on these marketplace plans and I was able to make it work at the price points they had. But recently I had one plan that company shuttered and the marketplace emailed and mailed me saying I am auto enrolled to something else. I called to try to figure out what. But the representative (bless him) who helped me filled me in that what the agent has been having me do is not allowed and that I will keep the money I posted above. Is there anyone who can help ease my mind on this at all? Or am I just on my own with no possibility to sue the agent who signed me up for the plan?

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