One of
the benefits of COBRA coverage is that it allows you to continue health coverage for your spouse and dependents, whereas Medicare only covers your own health care needs.
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Those in good standing who decided to leave were entitled to at least three months» severance pay and to three months
of COBRA healthcare reimbursement
benefits.
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (
COBRA) health
benefit provisions require group health plans to provide a temporary continuation
of group health coverage that otherwise might be terminated.
If you're planning to keep your insurance under
COBRA after you leave your job, the costs won't be much different, says Sunit Patel, senior vice-president
of Fidelity
Benefits Consulting.
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Of course, depending on the situation, it's also important to inform laid - off employees about their legal right to file an unemployment claim, as well as continue any health
benefits coverage through
COBRA.
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As companies seek ways to scale back
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of COBRA insurance should a person become unemployed or lose his
benefits.
There are also many qualified exceptions, which include divorce, termination
of benefits from an employer, changing residences, and exhaustion
of COBRA.
Since most
COBRA situations are the result
of employer - termination, the resulting
benefit period is 18 months.
There's a crazy little program called
COBRA — the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act — that will let you and your family keep your health insurance, including any group dental
benefits provided by your employer, for a limited period
of time (usually 18 or 36 months).
If your company has twenty or more employees,
COBRA lets you keep
benefits if you are voluntarily or involuntarily leaving your job, or if you're transitioning between jobs, and if other life events cause an interruption
of benefits.
Luckily, there are a lot
of options out there, and short - term health insurance, limited
benefit insurance, prescription discount cards, healthcare sharing ministries, and
COBRA insurance can be viable alternatives or supplements to long - term health insurance.
An employer has thirty days to notify the insurance company
of your eligibility for
COBRA continuation
of benefits, and the insurance company then has fourteen days to provide you with information regarding the costs and
benefits of the health care continuation coverage.
Learn more about
COBRA continuation coverage from the Department
of Labor in «An Employee's Guide to Health
Benefits Under
COBRA.»
Usually those who do not have access to Group Health coverage sponsored by employer (people who are self - employed, leave their job or start another job that does not provide adequate health insurance, or those who run out
of COBRA benefits) and do not qualify for public programs, have to buy Individual Health Insurance coverage.
With high, lingering unemployment (11.0 % as
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of health
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COBRA health insurance program.
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