The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) is a federal law that lets you keep employer group insurance when it ceases due to a lost job or other circumstances. But if you’re turning ...

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 ...

At 65, he lost his job and figured a new offer was weeks away, so he held off on Medicare Part B. But a federal clock started ...

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 ...

New federal guidance issued on Feb. 26, 2021, addressed pandemic-related extended deadlines for electing COBRA coverage and for filing health plan claims and appeals, for instance, but some warned the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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”; ...

A 64-year-old engineer takes a buyout from a 3,000-person employer in March. He signs up for 18 months of COBRA the same week, figuring he will deal with Medicare when COBRA runs out. Eleven months ...