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Reduced Hours & COBRA

mburchmburch 19 Posts
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Just a verification. A FT employe reducing hours to PT status. Do we offer COBRA benefits?
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  • bsabsa 359 Posts
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    It depends on your particular plan set up. Reduction in hours is a qualifying event and could trigger COBRA notification. But, according to your current plan -- how many hours does an employee have to work in a week, month, year to be eligible for medical coverage? (My plan says minimum 30 hours/week.) Then, is this PT employee working this minimum number of hours? Some group plans are FT or nothing.
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  • moneymanmoneyman 279 Posts
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    I agree with "bsa" that you must look to your particular plan. Our plan also states the employee must be regularly scheduled for 30 hours/week in order to "be eligible" for our plan. Whenever an employees goes below that mark, we issue a qualifying event notice and they loss coverage at the end of the month in which the change occurred.

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