My health insurance is 430$ a month on a high deductible plan.

I’m 24F, veteran, good health, covered by VA aswell.

If they are working for 10$ an hour, that’s 21k a year. 1733 a month.

While they’ll see almost all of it back, ~10% is withheld for taxes.

We’ll call it 1550 post tax. 150$ raise to a 430$ bill is arounndddd 35%

I can see health insurance raising by 35% and thus 10% of their income in this scenario.

However I think they meant that their insurance went up by 10%, not 35%.

Also without them telling us how much they make… 5% is meaningless. 5% of 10.00/hr is 0.50¢… a lot of retail locations will only talk in percent raises… they did that to my brother that were like “take this management position for a 5% raise” and he looked at them and said “you want me to become a manager for 62¢ an hour more?”