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How to Keep a Low Cost Health Insurance Plan

Cobra Help Center — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:31:00 +0000

You parents have been telling it to you since you were young, “You cant believe everything you hear.” No where is that more true then when it comes to health care. Finding health insurance that is high quality and low cost is possible for those who want to take the time and effort to understand [...]

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How to Keep a Low Cost Health Insurance Plan

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Same-Sex Couples and Right to COBRA

Cobra Help Center — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:29:00 +0000

A state that formally recognizes a same-sex marriage as legitimate, such as Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, may have to provide COBRA for spouses who had a “qualifying event”. A state that also provides mini-COBRA alternatively to COBRA must also provide such a right to a same-sex couple as long as they live [...]

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Same-Sex Couples and Right to COBRA

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Individual Health Plans Vs. Cobra Health Insurance

Cobra Help Center — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:27:00 +0000

COBRA (The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) was passed in 1986 and provides for the continuation of group health plan and insurance coverage when an individual loses his/her job for 18-36 months. COBRA offers an alternative to an individual or family health insurance plan. Though COBRA may seem scary, it is but one of your [...]

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Qualifying Events: Employees

Cobra Help Center — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:31:43 +0000

To be eligible for COBRA, you as a employee must meet certain conditions. If you meet any of these conditions, you are eligible for COBRA continuation. These qualifying events include: Voluntary or involuntary termination of employment, including by not limited to: quitting your job, being laid off, being fired or retiring. If you were fired though [...]

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Qualifying Events: Employees

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Which companies are subject to COBRA?

Cobra Help Center — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:00:03 +0000

Any private company that offers a group health plan, and has more than 20 employees, is subject to COBRA. All government jobs, non-profits or any other private organization that offers health care to its employees is subject to COBRA. In some cases, even companies with fewer then 20 employees must offer COBRA, depending on which state [...]

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Which companies are subject to COBRA?

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How do I become Eligiable for COBRA?

Cobra Help Center — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:15:36 +0000

Worried your not eligible for COBRA? Finding out is vitally important to maintaining your continued health insurance. To be entitled to COBRA continuation, you must have been enrolled in the company’s health plan, and a active member of the policy, before your employment was terminated. The policy must also still be provided to all still [...]

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How do I become Eligiable for COBRA?

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What does a COBRA Health Plan provide?

Cobra Help Center — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:54:33 +0000

A COBRA health insurance policy allows a former employee to continue the coverage they were receiving before being fired. This coverage cover both the former employee as well as any and all dependents including: spouses, former spouses due to death of employee or divorce, and all dependent children. COBRA is only available though if the [...]

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What does a COBRA Health Plan provide?

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What is COBRA Health Insurance?

Cobra Help Center — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:10:48 +0000

COBRA is not insurance. In fact, there is not even a true central “company” that handles COBRA. COBRA is a law that was passed by the federal government that allows for a former employee to continue their former employees health policy for up to 18 months after leaving their job. COBRA is not a new [...]

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What is COBRA Health Insurance?

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How Much Does the COBRA Subsidy Pay?

Cobra Help Center — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:00:29 +0000

The COBRA Subsidy does not pay a specific amount, rather is pay a percentage of your total COBRA premium. The subsidy pays 65% of your premium. So that means, if your COBRA premium was 1000 dollars per months, you are only required to pay 350. Your paying 35 cents to the dollar! Keep in mind [...]

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What is the COBRA Subsidy?

Cobra Help Center — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:00:09 +0000

The most recent stimulus package, signed into law on February 17, 2009, includes a section known as the COBRA Subsidy. This in fact is a subsidy offered through the Department of Labor for all those who could have or did become eligible for COBRA between Sept. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2009. So if you [...]

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What is COBRA Health Insurance?

Cobra Help Center — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:00:23 +0000

COBRA is not a Health Insurance Plan unto its self. COBRA is the right you have, as a former employee to a company with 20 or more other employees, to continue your medical insurance for as long as 18 months (or more in certain conditions). The former employee is allowed to keep this coverage with [...]

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When to Elect COBRA

Cobra Help Center — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:18:16 +0000

In today’s economy, more and more individuals are being confronted with a decision to enact their COBRA Health Insurance benefit. In an economic climate filled with rising unemployment, loss of income due to loss of work hours and employment transition, this important decision is impacting more and more individuals and families. Qualified employees, their spouses and [...]

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The Cost of COBRA is Relative

Cobra Help Center — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:14:39 +0000

Measuring the cost of health insurance can be an eye-opening experience. In this era of rising health costs, all employees, their spouses and even their dependents are aware of the cost of health insurance. There is no such thing as a low cost health need. Unfortunately, most individuals do not give much thought to the [...]

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COBRA Insurance Qualifying Events

Cobra Help Center — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:52:37 +0000

COBRA insurance is an extension of health care benefits that would have been otherwise lost due to a variety of reasons. There are a number of qualifying events that will make you eligible for COBRA health insurance coverage, provided you were previously covered under your employer’s major medical health plan. The first and most common qualifying [...]

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