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MediCal eligibility

615 views 13 replies 9 participants last post by  New2This  
#1 · (Edited)
Asking for a friend.

He was diagnosed of CKĐ stage 3. But he got hooked onto Ubering and skipped high blood pressure medications for a long time. He í now stage 4 and very close to stage 5.
Doctors are preparing him for Dialysis. They also put him on waiting list for transplant.

So now he is thinking of quitting Jobs and everything to retain MediCal . In California, in oder to be eligible for Medi Cal a single man can only make up to $21K. a year.


I was wondering. How much Ubering can one make a year and still eligible for MediCal.


Say you make an average for 1 dollar a mile. Say you drive 100K miles a year for example. And you get standard deduction of 70 cents per mile. Does that mean your effective income is $30K a year?

1/ So that means you are limited to drive $.30 times 70K miles equal $21k effective income?

2/.Can his relatives, like a brother or sister or mother form a S corp and he does Uber but have Uber pay out to that S corp?

3/ Can he go to work as Corp to Corp contractor and have the employer pay that same S Corp owned by a relative?
 
Discussion starter · #6 ·
How about this:

His sibbling would own and sole proprietorship or either S or C corporation, and this business structure would hire him to do the driving. All income made from his work, Uber is to pay to the bank account of this business, with appropriate TAX ID, then each month the structure would pay him and small amount?
 
Discussion starter · #12 ·
If you make a few dollars more than the $21,000 limit, you will lose medical. The only way to make it work, is to make no more than $34,000/ year because they use a standard formula of your net being 60% of gross income and they ask for your last two months Uber monthly pay statements.

When I had to requalify, I literally netted less than $34k for the year, but my previous 2 months earnings statements were from my busiest months, so they based their calculations on my making that amount consistently throughout the year, and took me off medical.

This is just my experience, but I would not advise making any more than $2800/ month, in order to maintain coverage.
I think if you do it through an LLC or S corp then it is different.

60 percent of gross personal revenue is 0.

Your income will be the revenue of the S Corp minus the expense. This will be very little after đeduction