Waiving or Selecting COBRA Coverage for a Participant

Access the COBRA Coverage Selection form.

To select COBRA coverage for a participant:

1. On Work With COBRA Coverage Selection, complete the Participant Address field, and then click Find.

2. To waive COBRA coverage for this participant, select Waive COBRA Coverage.

   Note:

   When you click Waive COBRA Coverage, you waive coverage for all plans in which the participant is eligible to elect coverage, and the Waived Date column is completed with the system date. You can override the system date by entering a date in the Date COBRA Coverage Waived field.

   You receive the following pop-up message when you click Waive COBRA Coverage:

   You are about to waive COBRA Coverage for the selected participant

   If you wish to continue, click OK and all the plans for this participant and qualified event will be waived

   If you do not wish to continue, click Cancel

3. On Warning - Waive COBRA Coverage, click OK.

4. To select COBRA coverage for a participant, select a record, and then select Coverage Selection from the Row menu.

   On COBRA Coverage Selection, the detail area displays all of the plans for which the participant is eligible.

5. Select a plan and click Elect Plan to specify the coverage selection.

   When you click Elect Plan, all other related plans are rejected. For example, when you elect the plan MED with the option EE (employee) Only, the other plans that relate to MED are automatically rejected, and the system completes the Rejected Date field with the system date. Therefore, the plan MED with the option EE + 1 and the plan MED with the option EE + Family will be rejected.

6. Repeat Step 5 for each plan that you want to select, and then click OK.