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Qualifying Mid-Year Events

They affect your health insurance benefits!

• Having a baby?
• Got a new spouse ... or a new ex-spouse?
• Child becoming "self-supporting"* soon?

*Working a full-time job; getting married; or turning 23 by year's end

Answers to these Qualifying Mid-Year Events questions, and many others allow you to make changes to your health insurance plan and flexible reimbursement accounts -- if you report them to Human Resources within 31 days of their occurrence.

What to do when you experience a Qualifying Mid-Year Event?

And remember...

When you drop an ineligible spouse or child, the university must be provided with the name and new address so that the individual can receive information about COBRA health insurance coverage.

NOTE -- Your change in health insurance coverage will become effective the first of the month following receipt of your enrollment form.

Exceptions

What happens if you don't report the Qualifying Mid-Year Event within 31 days?

NOTE: visit the DHRM Facts and Information page If you are looking for information about health benefits in retirement or while on VSDP