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Question of the Week - COBRA Start Date

Q.- An employee terminated in August. She elected COBRA but took her full 60 days to do so. She wants her payments to be applied starting in November since she hadn’t ...
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Question of the Week - Dropping Spouse at Open Enrollment

Q: An employee is going to drop her spouse from coverage at open enrollment. We know they are in the process of getting a divorce. The spouse contacted us and demands to ...
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Question of the Week - COBRA Election

Q: Can an employee who was not enrolled in our health coverage elect COBRA?
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Question of the Week - Withholding Benefits for COBRA Election

Q. An employee is terminating. Can we hold his last paycheck until he either waives COBRA continuation coverage, elects and pays for coverage, or allows the election ...
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Question of the Week - Extension of 18-Month COBRA Period

Q: Can a former employee get more than 18 months of COBRA coverage?
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Question of the Week – COBRA Coverage

Q.- Our health plan runs on a 7/1 to 6/30 plan year. An employee enrolled in the plan starting July 1 and then terminated employment July 2. Do we have to offer COBRA? ...
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Question of the Week - Missed COBRA Notice

Q: What happens if we forget to send a COBRA qualifying event letter and the employee doesn’t receive their COBRA election notice on time?
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Question of the Week - COBRA and Credit Card Payments

Q.- A terminated employee wants to elect COBRA. He said he doesn’t have a checking account anymore and told us we have to allow him to pay using his credit card. Is this ...
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Question of the Week - COBRA for Employee on Leave of Absence

Q.- We have an employee who is currently on long-term disability. Company policy is to discontinue an employee’s medical benefits if they are on leave longer than 6 ...
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