{"id":909553,"date":"2026-09-25T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909553\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T21:12:16","slug":"heather-matarazzo-says-she-may-lose-health-insurance-through-sag-aftra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909553\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Matarazzo Says She May Lose Health Insurance Through SAG-AFTRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cPrincess Diaries\u201d star Heather Matarazzo revealed she may not qualify for health insurance if she doesn\u2019t find work soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe actress, who starred alongside Anne Hathaway in the \u201cPrincess Diaries\u201d films as Lilly Moscovitz, replied to a post from \u201cAtypical\u201d actor Jack Haven that revealed they needed work in order to qualify for health insurance through SAG-AFTRA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe guild offers a health plan for its members that requires a \u201cminimum earnings\u201d threshold be met to qualify. However, booking projects in the entertainment industry is often unpredictable and fluctuates, which leads to larger gaps between employment opportunities and ultimately makes meeting that threshold more difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m in a bit of an emergency situation,\u201d Haven shared in a YouTube video this week. \u201cI need to make $4,000 by the end of the month in order to qualify for SAG health insurance starting in January.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe actor shared their skills and said they will do \u201cpretty much any job,\u201d encouraging anyone open to hiring them on a production under SAG to contact them over email. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMatarazzo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@heathermatarazzo\/post\/Ddp6mCyjREg?xmt=AQG0B3K9dSrtLKZAzacWrJgxnKukQBpQOIObUvpdPSAPwgldkZRx-H3riReJ6kZ2u2AsCDo\" target=\"_blank\">replied to a post<\/a> about Haven\u2019s plea, writing, \u201cI am literally in the same boat right now. Lots of my fellow actors are. I remember a time when we didn\u2019t have to earn a minimum to qualify for insurance. Glad to see that Jack has gotten an offer that will let them to qualify for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs detailed on the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sagaftraplans.org\/health\/eligibility\" target=\"_blank\">SAG Health Plan\u2019s eligibility page<\/a>, the minimum threshold is expected to rise by approximately $900 each year until 2030. This year, members were required to earn $28,933. SAG-AFTRA did not respond immediately to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMatarazzo\u2019s most recent project was the 2025 short film \u201cPaper Tiger.\u201d She also starred \u201cWelcome to the Dollhouse,\u201d \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Advocate\u201d and \u201cScream 3,\u201d as well as multiple episodes of Netflix\u2019s \u201cWednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPrincess Diaries\u201d star Heather Matarazzo revealed she may not qualify for health insurance if she doesn\u2019t find work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,31572,285462],"class_list":["post-909553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-screen-actors-guild","tag-the-princess-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}