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IMPORTANT

Changes to your benefit elections due to a life-changing event must be made within 31 days of the event.

Leave of Absence

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.