I just want people to be aware of what is happening to some of Targets’ TMs. It was a great gesture on Targets’ part to reduce the average hourly requirement to 24.9 hrs/ week. But here is the problem. I’ve been benefiting from tax credits for my health insurance gotten in the Marketplace. This yr I had to pay $.00 for one of their Bronze plans. But come April 1 I qualify for Target health insurance. This disqualifies my wife and I from receiving tax credits. I wouldn’t mind but my wife also works at Target and missed qualifying by 1/2 hr on average. So we are forced with paying a higher premium for the lowest premium plan offered to us. So now we have to pay on average $ 266/ month for a plan that is not as good as the one we had. That’s 9% of our income after taxes. It would have been great if we would have been given heads up from Target to plan ahead. Targets Pay and Benefits division wouldn’t even consider overriding my wife’s’ denial of coverage because of being so close to reaching the required hourly average. It would have at least brought our premium cost to an average of $118/ month. This has put us in quite a pickle. I know this is going to effect a lot of TMs. Some may be forced to go without health insurance because they can’t afford it. I wanted to at least let those who made this decision know the repercussions of this decision. So this is our reward for our 5 yrs of service to Target. I did file a complaint with the Integrity hotline and await a call back. If anyone knows anything else we can do to make our complaint heard, please let us know! Thanks!
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