Some Recent Grads Face Health Care Coverage Gap NPR
26.05.10
The benefit goes into effect during the first policy renewal period beginning on or after Sept. 23, 2010. Plans must offer an open enrollment period of at least 30 days. Many plans are offering coverage earlier than Sept. 23. Contact your human resources office for more information. The Department of Health and Human Services, which published regulations to specify the rules governing how the benefit will work, also published a list of insurance plans offering coverage early. It is available here . All plans that offer coverage for dependents must provide coverage to any young adult who has not yet reached the age of 26. That includes young adults who are married, who live in other states, or who have jobs. It does not include grandchildren. The young adults do not have to be able to be claimed as dependents for tax purposes. The only exception to the requirement: young adults who are eligible for health insurance at their own job. That exception ends, however, in 2014. Young
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