{"id":1595141,"date":"2022-08-08T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595141"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:10:15","slug":"fact-check-is-the-us-government-offering-a-new-benefit-to-uninsured-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-the-us-government-offering-a-new-benefit-to-uninsured-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is The US Government Offering A New Benefit To Uninsured Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-the-us-government-offering-a-new-benefit-to-uninsured-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_193931348-scaled-e1659991621656.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarcoFahey.official\/posts\/363655345942748\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the U.S. government is offering a new benefit to Americans who are over 40 years old and without life insurance.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest the government is offering any new benefit.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of all American adults were without life insurance in 2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limra.com\/en\/research\/research-abstracts-public\/2021\/2021-insurance-barometer-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association<\/a> (LIMRA). Now, a video shared on Facebook claims Americans over 40 who are without life insurance are eligible for a new benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows what appears to be a news broadcast about the initiative and features a chyron that reads, \u201cFinally Approved. A 2022 program that offers up to $150,000 benefits to U.S. Citizens.\u201d The video\u2019s caption clarifies that the benefit is eligible for \u201cAnyone over 40 living in USA without life insurance.\u201d\u00a0A link included in the post re-directs interested individuals to a website where they can learn more information about the purported program\u2019s benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The post\u2019s claims are false. Check Your Fact found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=FINALLY+APPROVED+-+Anyone+over+40+living+in+USA+without+life+insurance+is+entitled+to+this+BENEFIT+under+This+NEW+INITIATIVE.+Claim+now+before+it+ends.&#038;oq=FINALLY+APPROVED+-+Anyone+over+40+living+in+USA+without+life+insurance+is+entitled+to+this+BENEFIT+under+This+NEW+INITIATIVE.+Claim+now+before+it+ends.&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.175j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no credible news reports<\/a> to suggest any such benefit or program has become available to U.S. citizens in 2022. There is no mention of such a program on LIMRA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limra.com\/en\/search\/?q=new+initiative+over+40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> or the Treasury Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/search.treasury.gov\/search?affiliate=treas&#038;query=life%20insurance%20over%2040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clip featured at the beginning of the video does not mention anything about the alleged initiative. Instead, it shows a 2021 Senate session in which the Senate approved a bill to fund the government through December 3, 2021, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?515049-1\/us-senate-approves-government-funding-bill-sends-house#!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">footage from C-SPAN<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/07\/22\/fact-check-social-security-check-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, People Born Before 1957 Are Not Eligible To Receive Thousands More On Their Social Security Checks).<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/life-saving.co\/?fbclid=IwAR3BlmKVbJ_BNwmPIjtNx_sPPsTMFRugYuxKgYXQgB4FA6_rQ79Xe0-69lc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website link<\/a> included in the post, which prompts users to provide their age and citizenship status, indicates the post is an advertisement. \u201cThis is an advertisement and not an actual news article, blog, or consumer protection update,\u201d reads the text at the bottom of the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook claims the U.S. government is offering a new benefit to Americans who are over 40 years old and without life insurance.Verdict: MisleadingThere is no evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}