Same Sex Spousal Coverage. For the purposes of this Article, coverage shall include a spouse of the same sex.
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Spousal Coverage Any new Participants to the COG, after June 30, 2015, with working spouses who have the ability to be covered under an insurance plan through his/her place of employment, will be required to take his/her plan as their primary plan. This provision does not apply to a participant who had insurance with one COG employer and immediately thereafter, moved to another COG employer. If the spouse is required to pay forty (40%) percent or more of the premium with his/her employer, the requirements of this section shall not apply.
Dental Coverage 206. Each employee covered by this agreement shall be eligible to participate in the City's dental program.
Contribution Formula Dental Coverage a. Faculty Member Coverage. For faculty member dental coverage, the Employer contributes an amount equal to the lesser of ninety percent (90%) of the faculty member premium of the State Dental Plan, or the actual faculty member premium of the dental plan chosen by the faculty member. However, for calendar years beginning January 1, 2014, and January 1, 2015, the minimum employee contribution shall be five dollars ($5.00) per month.
Individual Coverage If you have Individual Coverage, only your own health care expenses are cov ered, not the health care expenses of other members of your family. FAMILY COVERAGE Under Family Coverage, your health care expenses and those of your enrolled spouse and your (and/or your spouse's) enrolled children who are under the limit ing age specified in the BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS section of this Certificate will be covered. All of the provisions of this Certificate that pertain to a spouse also apply to a party of a Civil Union unless specifically noted otherwise. “Child(ren)” used hereafter in this Certificate, means a natural child(ren), a step child(xxx), adopted child(xxx), xxxxxx child(xxx), a child(ren) for whom you are the legal guardian or a child(xxx) for whom you have received a court order requiring that you are financially responsible for providing coverage under 26 years of age. a child(xxx) who is in your custody under an interim court order prior to finaliza tion of adoption or placement of adoption vesting temporary care, whichever comes first, child(xxx) for whom you are the legal guardian under 26 years of age, regardless of presence or absence of a child's financial dependency, residency, student status, employment status, marital status, eligibility for other coverage or any combination of those factors. In addition, enrolled unmarried children will be covered up to the age of 30 if they: • Live within the service area of the Plan network for this Certificate; and • Have served as an active or reserve member of any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States; and • Have received a release or discharge other than a dishonorable discharge. Coverage for children will end on the last day of the calendar month in which the limiting age birthday falls. If you have Family Coverage, newborn children will be covered from the moment of birth. Please notify the Plan within 31 days of the birth so that your member ship records can be adjusted. Your Group Administrator can tell you how to submit the proper notice through the Plan. Children who are under your legal guardianship or who are in your custody under an interim court order prior to finalization of adoption or placement of adoption vesting temporary care, whichever comes first, and xxxxxx children will be cov ered. In addition, if you have children for whom you are required by court order to provide health care coverage, those children will be covered. Any children who are incapable of self‐sustaining employment and are dependent upon you or other care providers for lifetime care and supervision because of a disabled condition occurring prior to reaching the limiting age will be covered regardless of age as long as they were covered prior to reaching the limiting age specified in the BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS section. This coverage does not include benefits for grandchildren (unless such children have been legally adopted or are under your legal guardianship). Coverage under this Certificate is contingent upon timely receipt by the Plan of necessary information and initial premium. MEDICARE ELIGIBLE COVERED PERSONS A series of federal laws collectively referred to as the ``Medicare Secondary Payer'' (MSP) laws regulate the manner in which certain employers may offer group health care coverage to Medicare eligible employees, spouses, and in some cases, dependent children. Reference to spouse under this section do not include a party to a Civil Union with the Eligible Person or their children. The statutory requirements and rules for MSP coverage vary depending on the basis for Medicare and employer group health plan (“GHP”) coverage, as well as certain other factors, including the size of the employers sponsoring the GHP. In general, Medicare pays secondary to the following:
Retiree Medical Coverage An eligible retiree and eligible dependent(s) (as defined below), may be enrolled in a County offered medical plan as described in section 10.2 but is allowed only to enroll either as a subscriber in a County offered medical plan or, as the dependent spouse/domestic partner of another eligible County employee/retiree, but not both. If an employee/retiree is also eligible to cover their dependent child/children, each child will be allowed to enroll as a dependent on only one employee or retirees’ plan (i.e., a retiree and his or her dependents cannot be covered by more than one County offered plan). An eligible dependent is (as defined in each plan document/summary plan description): Xxxxxx the retiree’s spouse or domestic partner; or A child, based on your plan’s age limits, or a disabled dependent child regardless of age.
Spousal Eligibility a. For employees hired on or after August 1, 2003: If the spouse of an employee is covered by any PEBTF health care plan, and he/she is eligible for coverage under another employer’s plan(s), the spouse shall be required to enroll in each such plan, which shall be the spouse’s primary coverage, as a condition of the spouse’s eligibility for coverage by the PEBTF plan(s), without regard to whether the spouse’s plan requires cost sharing or to whether the spouse’s employer offers an incentive to the spouse not to enroll.
Same Sex Benefit Coverage An employee who co-habits with a person of the same sex, and who promotes such person as a "spouse" (partner), and who has done so for a period of not less than twelve (12) months, will be eligible to have the person covered as a spouse for purposes of Medical, Extended Health, and Dental benefits.
Dual Coverage A. Each employee and retiree may be covered only by a single County health (and/or dental) plan, including a CalPERS plan. For example, a County employee may be covered under a single County health and/or dental plan as either the primary insured or the dependent of another County employee or retiree, but not as both the primary insured and the dependent of another County employee or retiree.
Optional Coverage No later than 30 days prior to the date established by the City, an employee in active service or who after that date retires on disability and under the age of 65 eligible for and taking base coverage, shall be eligible to apply for supplemental coverage effective January 1, 1994, at his/her option in increments of $1,000 to a maximum of 1.5 times his/her annual basic salary rounded to the next higher thousand dollars of earnings. This coverage shall be made available to eligible employees applying for supplemental coverage no later than 30 days prior to the date established by the City and annually thereafter during periods of open enrollment.
Retiree Coverage Pre-Medicare: Employees who retire on or after January 1, 2011, will be provided the same health care benefits, including but not limited to, cost sharing, that it provides to its active employees until the retiree becomes eligible for Medicare. In the event health care benefits for active employees are eliminated in their entirety, which shall include a change to a one-hundred (100%) percent employee contributory health savings plan, the last health care benefits plan in effect for retirees preceding the elimination of the plan shall remain in effect (absent a contrary order from a Court of competent jurisdiction) until the Employer again provides a health care benefits plan to active employees. Medicare: Retirees must enroll in the Part B Medicare program commencing on the date they first become eligible to participate in the program. Retirees shall be responsible for the cost of such coverage. The Employer shall make available to those retirees who are properly enrolled in the Part B Medicare Program as above provided, a Supplemental Plan, with a $100 deductible. Such Plan will have the same Rx drug benefits the County provides its active employees. In the event Rx drug benefits for active employees are eliminated in their entirety, which shall include a change to a one-hundred (100%) percent employee contributory health savings plan, the Rx drug benefits last in effect for retirees preceding the elimination of the Rx drug benefits for active employees shall remain in effect (absent a contrary order from a Court of competent jurisdiction) until the Employer again provides Rx drug benefits to active employees.
