Given the possible health impacts of COVID-19, maintaining access to health care and insurance coverage is front of the mind for just about everyone. Continuation coverage under COBRA offers employees ...

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed some nine years ago, many employers wondered what would become of COBRA (aka, the continuation coverage requirements of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget ...

When you're leaving a job that provided you with health insurance, making a plan for continued coverage is one of the single most important things you can do. Without health insurance, a serious ...

You've just been laid off. You're so mad that you rip the phone out of the wall, lose your balance and break your hand. Now you need a doctor. But do you still have health insurance? Chances are, if ...

This notice contains information about your rights to COBRA continuation coverage, which is a temporary extension of the University of North Georgia sponsored group insurance coverage under the ...

The narrow health care provisions in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill will leave many unemployed workers and their families without private health care coverage. The bill's legislative ...

The following are qualifying events for a covered employee if they cause the covered employee to lose coverage: Termination of the employee’s employment for any reason other than “gross misconduct”; ...

Editor’s Note: ARRA 2009 provided a temporary premium subsidy for COBRA continuation coverage for certain unemployed workers. An insured or self-funded group health plan maintained by an employer to ...

In the economic stimulus package passed by two committees of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 22 is a provision that could have a significant, long-range impact on health care if it's ...

Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare Maven.” Send your questions to Phil.

Every day, dozens of confused, laid-off workers call the privately run COBRA Help Center in Long Island, N.Y., which administers COBRA group health insurance plans. They're struggling to understand ...