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Obamacare or Affordable Care Act has doled out $750 million in taxpayer subsidies to over half a million illegal immigrants and immigrants with unverified legal status, according to a new Senate report.

As of June 2015, "the Administration awarded approximately $750 million in tax credits on behalf of individuals who were later determined to be ineligible because they failed to verify their citizenship, status as a national, or legal presence," said the report from Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, reported Fox News.

Thus, the health insurance of more than 500,000 illegal immigrants or those who had not yet verified their citizenship or immigration status has been paid. The $750 million divided by about 500,000 recipients totals to about $1,600 in premium tax credits per person calculates Breitbart.

The Centers for Medicine and Medicaid Services, managing the federal health exchange, explained to Fox News that 471,000 persons with coverage last year did not show any documents that confirmed their legal status, yet that did not make them ineligible.

"Lack of verification does not mean an individual is ineligible for financial assistance, but only that a Marketplace did not receive sufficient information to verify eligibility in the time period outlined in the law," CMS spokesman Aaron Albright said.

The Senate committee explained that the administration has not planned a realistic schedule to get back the money, and it predicted that the IRS will never recover it.

"The information provided to the Committee by the IRS and HHS reveals a troubling lack of coordination between the two agencies ... and demonstrates that the IRS and HHS neglected to consider how they would recover these wasteful payments," the report says.

Last week, Obamacare officials said that about 12.7 million have signed up for health plans during this year's open enrolment. This is one million more than those who signed up in 2015, or shows an increase of 8.5 percent, according to CNBC.