COBRA: What do I do to get new benefits?
After my last COBRA post, COBRA Insurance Relief Under the Stimulus Package: New Employee Benefit Issues for Employees and Employers, I've been getting quite few COBRA inquiries from people who have lost a job. People are asking, "What do I do to get these COBRA benefits?"
To learn if you qualify and what to do, first try contacting your former employer and then your former health insurance Plan Administrator.
If you don't get an informed response then here are some links from the U.S. Department of Labor (phone numbers are included, too):
Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference on the COBRA Premium Reduction Provision
Job Loss Poster (8½" x 11")
Job Loss Poster (11" x 17")
DOL Information Related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
