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This notice is intended to provide a summary of your rights, options, and notification responsibilities under COBRA. Should an actual qualifying event occur in the future and coverage is lost, the CalPERS will provide you (and your covered dependents, if any), with the appropriate COBRA election notice at that time.

Initial COBRA Notice. Date of Notice: Notice of Rights Under COBRA. The COBRA statute requires that continuation coverage be offered to covered employees and their covered dependents in order to continue their State-sponsored health/dental/vision benefit(s) in the event coverage is lost due to certain qualifying events ...

COBRA coverage lets you pay to stay on your job-based health insurance for a limited time after your job ends (usually 18 months). You usually pay the full premium yourself, plus a small administrative fee. Contact your employer to learn about your COBRA options.

Enroll in COBRA by completing your enrollment online or sign up by paper application and mail it back to the employer. You will have 60 days to elect COBRA continuation.

The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, ...

COBRA – the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act -- provides a temporary continuation of group health coverage that would otherwise be lost due to certain life events.

If you are an employee of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you have the right to choose COBRA coverage if you lose your group health coverage because your hours of employment are reduced or your employment ends for reasons other than gross misconduct.

COBRA Qualifying Event Notice The employer must notify the plan if the qualifying event is: Termination or reduction in hours of employment of the covered employee, • Death of the covered employee, • Covered employee becoming entitled to Medicare, or • Employer bankruptcy.