A ‘coding error’ is the reason 800,000 people using Healthcare.gov were sent the wrong tax information

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This is a storyline that feels all too familiar.

A federal health official confirmed Monday that the Obamacare glitch that sent the wrong tax information to 800,000  people who enrolled in insurance policies through HealthCare.gov was the result of a “coding error,” according to The Hill. 

Apparently on about 20 percent of the tax forms the information used to calculate subsidies was wrong  “because of an intermittent defect in the code that was used to create these forms,” the official wrote in a statement. Meaning that the code listed data for 2015 Obamcare benchmark plans instead of 2014.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Friday that he believed the issues would be resolved “within the next couple of weeks” and that all taxpayers will be able to file their paperwork before the April deadline.

“The IRS and CMS are working diligently to address this problem. And it’s something that they take seriously,” Earnest said, as quoted by The Hill.

But while this may have been this most public embarrassment the site faced this year, this is far from the only technical glitch Healthcare.gov is dealing with.

Politico reported last week that many health plans have to use “clunky workarounds and manual spreadsheets” and that “there’s just going to be a whole lot more workarounds and paper clips and rubber bands for at least another year.”