The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) is a federal law that lets you keep employer group insurance when ...

Given the possible health impacts of COVID-19, maintaining access to health care and insurance coverage is front of the mind for just about everyone. Continuation coverage under COBRA offers employees ...

COBRA does not extend Medicare's 8-month Special Enrollment Period. The clock starts when active employment ends, not when COBRA expires. The permanent Part B late-enrollment penalty adds 10% per ...

Quick ReadCOBRA coverage does not count as creditable for Medicare Part B, so retirees who rely on it miss the 8-month ...

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed some nine years ago, many employers wondered what would become of COBRA (aka, the continuation coverage requirements of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget ...

Danielle Capilla is the vice president of compliance and employee benefits at Alera Group. Views are author's own. Since its passage in 1985, COBRA has allowed qualified individuals who lose their ...

When you're leaving a job that provided you with health insurance, making a plan for continued coverage is one of the single most important things you can do. Without health insurance, a serious ...

This section explains COBRA continuation coverage, when it may become available to you and your family, and what you need to do to protect your right to get it. When you become eligible for COBRA, you ...

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The following are qualifying events for a covered employee if they cause the covered employee to lose coverage: Termination of the employee’s employment for any reason other than “gross misconduct”; ...

Every day, dozens of confused, laid-off workers call the privately run COBRA Help Center in Long Island, N.Y., which administers COBRA group health insurance plans. They're struggling to understand ...