Dependent Status

Qualifying Events

In order to make changes to your health care benefits mid year you must experience a qualifying status change event. Qualifying events include the following:

1. An employee’s marriage, divorce, legal separation.
2. The death of an employee’s spouse or a dependent.
3. The birth, adoption, placement for adoption, or legal guardianship of a child.
4. The commencement or termination of employment by the employee’s spouse.
5. A change from part-time to full-time employment status or vice versa by the employee or the employee’s spouse except for a Health Care Flexible Spending Account (HCFSA). A HCFSA may not be changed in the event of a change in the employee’s status from part-time to full-time or full-time to part-time.
6. An unpaid leave of absence taken by either the employee or the employee’s spouse.
7. A significant change in an employee or spouse’s health coverage that is attributable to the spouse’s employment.

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